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Karnataka MLC elections: Cross-voting puts BJP-JDS ties under strainCross-voting in Karnataka MLC polls has highlighted BJP-JDS friction. Despite BJP's support, JDS faced unexpected losses as its own MLAs de...- Cabinet expansion decision rests with Cong high command: Karnataka CM ShivakumarKarnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar stated that cabinet expansion decisions rest with the Congress high command. He assured representat...
- Karnataka caste census: Communities make efforts to see their dominance reflected in survey outcomeAs Karnataka commences its caste census, community leaders are mobilizing their members to accurately reflect their population size. Chief ...
- Karnataka groups brace for showdown over caste censusKarnataka's Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities are preparing for a showdown with the Congress government over the controversial caste censu...
- Lingayats, Vokkaligas plan major showdown over caste censusKarnataka's Congress government faces a major challenge as dominant Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities strongly oppose the controversial ca...
- Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah tables caste census report in Cabinet, decision on April 17The Karnataka cabinet has taken the controversial socio-economic survey, also known as the caste census report, on record and scheduled a m...
- Amit Shah's Suttur Mutt visit may help BJP win over LingayatsUnion Home Minister Amit Shah lauded the Suttur Mutt, a significant religious institution of Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Mysuru, for its socie...
- Karnataka: Lingayats seek inclusion in central OBC quota, ask CM Siddaramaiah to junk caste census reportThe State Permanent Backward Classes Commission has prepared the caste census or socio-economic survey report and is waiting for a signal f...
- The play at key Lingayat and Vokkaliga seats in Karnataka's Assembly electionKarnataka's political equations heavily rely on caste, with the Lingayats and Vokkaligas communities wielding significant influence despite...
- How the BJP and Congress vie to woo Lingayats and VokkaligasThe BJP has gone so far as to name over 100 candidates from these two communities, with 60 seats allocated to Lingayats and 43 to Vokkaliga...
- Why mutts matter so much in Karnataka's electoral politicsIn Karnataka, elections can be won or lost with just a nod or a shake of head from the chief of a mutt. Though many mutts do not take part ...
- Amit Shah defends scrapping 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in KarnatakaThe Minister added that after abolishing Muslim reservation, the BJP government increased the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Schedul...
- Assembly polls: Caste, corruption, region, religion, rebellion make mark in Karnataka battlefieldThe caste politics in Karnataka is like in the heartland states and every party tries to get the caste mathematics right. Lingayats and Vok...
- Karnataka Polls: BJP banks on recast Quota Policy to combat Congress's Ahinda cardThe Basavaraj Bommai government's decision to increase the reservation quota for STs from 3% to 7% and for SC's from 15% to 17%, as well as...
- CM Basavaraj Bommai dares Shivakumar to tell Lingayats, Vokkaligas where Congress stood on quota issueLingayats, Vokkaligas not beggars to accept from Muslim quota, retorts Shivakumar. The KPCC president on Monday reiterated that his party w...
- Will restore 4 pc quota for Muslims scrapped by BJP government, says Karnataka Congress chiefWhile addressing the media, DK Shivakumar said, "I am confident that Congress will come to power after the next 45 days. We will scrap all ...
- Karnataka moves Muslims from OBC to EWS quota list, hands 2% hike to Lingayats & Vokkaligas ahead of crucial assembly pollsMuslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...
- Karnataka budget offers sops to caste groups, promises to set up Vokkaliga development boardThe announcement came four months after the government established the Karnataka Veerashaiva Lingayat Development Corporation for the to he...
- Quota balancing act for BS Yediyurappa as powerful Vokkaliga mutt joins issue“Members of some subsects of the Vokkaliga community are backward but are losing out on reservation benefits under the OBC quota,” said Swa...
- Moves on Lingayats and Vokkaligas cost Siddaramaiah dearThe damage was so intense that Siddaramaiah, who confidently expected Vokkaligas to vote for him in his old constituency of Chamundeshwari,...
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