Karnataka's Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities are preparing for a showdown with the Congress government over the controversial caste censu...

Karnataka's Congress government faces a major challenge as dominant Lingayat and Vokkaliga communities strongly oppose the controversial ca...

The Karnataka cabinet has taken the controversial socio-economic survey, also known as the caste census report, on record and scheduled a m...

Union Home Minister Amit Shah lauded the Suttur Mutt, a significant religious institution of Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Mysuru, for its socie...

The State Permanent Backward Classes Commission has prepared the caste census or socio-economic survey report and is waiting for a signal f...

Karnataka's political equations heavily rely on caste, with the Lingayats and Vokkaligas communities wielding significant influence despite...

The 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...

In 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 ...

The Minister added that after abolishing Muslim reservation, the BJP government increased the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Schedul...

The caste politics in Karnataka is like in the heartland states and every party tries to get the caste mathematics right. Lingayats and Vok...

The 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...

Lingayats, Vokkaligas not beggars to accept from Muslim quota, retorts Shivakumar. The KPCC president on Monday reiterated that his party w...

While addressing the media, DK Shivakumar said, "I am confident that Congress will come to power after the next 45 days. We will scrap all ...

Muslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...

The announcement came four months after the government established the Karnataka Veerashaiva Lingayat Development Corporation for the to he...

“Members of some subsects of the Vokkaliga community are backward but are losing out on reservation benefits under the OBC quota,” said Swa...

The damage was so intense that Siddaramaiah, who confidently expected Vokkaligas to vote for him in his old constituency of Chamundeshwari,...