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Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah on backfoot over Muslim anger; loyalist ousters ahead of bypoll resultsChief Minister Siddaramaiah faces internal challenges. Discontent brews within the Muslim community. Leaders close to him are being sidelin...- Karnataka cabinet to take up caste census report amid internal oppositionKarnataka's Cabinet convened to discuss the controversial caste census, but deferred a decision to May 2 amidst disagreements over the cast...
- Caste Census: Cabinet to meet again on May 2 in Bengaluru, discussion inconclusive amid stiff oppositionThe Karnataka Cabinet's special meeting on the caste census report concluded without a decision due to ministers' concerns over caste-wise ...
- Siddaramaiah accepts caste survey report ignoring protests from dominant communitiesCM Siddaramaiah accepted the caste census report, ignoring protests from Veerashaiva-Lingayats and Vokkaligas. The report was submitted by ...
- Why traditional BJP supporters Lingayats voted for CongressCongress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...
- Varuna, Shiggaon, Kanakapura, Channapatna: 10 key seats that will decide the fate of Karnataka heavyweightsAs Karnataka prepares for its upcoming assembly elections, parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters across the state. With 224 a...
- Amit Shah defends exclusion of Muslims from OBC quota in poll-bound KarnatakaThe BJP-led Karnataka government’s decision to remove Muslims from the other backward classes (OBC) list and move them to the economically ...
- Govt committed on quota issue: Karnataka CM amid protests by PanchamasalisKarnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said his government is working with commitment on the reservation issue, as Panchamas...
- Caste groups turn active in poll-bound states with their list of demandsOn January 8, Karni Sena, an outfit of the Rajput community held a massive protest-cum-rally in Bhopal against the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-le...
- Parties tread carefully as lingayat seer faces Pocso case in poll-bound KarnatakaIn the past, the seer has hosted Congress' Rahul Gandhi and influential RSS-BJP leaders. BJP leader BS Yediyurappa has backed the seer, say...
- Quota for Panchamasalis: Karnataka Backward Classes Commission hits the ground runningAfter chief minister BS Yediyurappa sought 6-7 months to decide on the demands for providing additional reservation to Panchamasalis, the c...
- Quota demand: Karnataka government forms panel under retired judgeIt said retired Chief Secretary Ratna Prabha and professor B V Vasanth Kumar, assistant professor at Maharani Arts College, Mysuru, would b...
- Two Cabinet ministers back BS Yediyurappa, ask Panchamasalis to pause protestsBoth the ministers, who had so far publicly endorsed the rally led by heads of two religious mutts seeking reservation under the 2A categor...
- Panchamasali ministers come to Yediyurappa's rescue, hit out at leaders spearheading agitation“It did not appear like a Panchamasali rally, but resembled a Congress or Kashappanavar’s convention. Yatnal is the B team of the Congress ...
- Panchamasali Lingayats’ show in Bengaluru dents B S Yediyurappa’s leadership statusSunday’s massive rally led by heads of two powerful mutts of the subsect showed Yediyurappa no longer enjoyed clout among the Panchamasalis...
- BS Yediyurappa announces 'mammoth' statue of city founder Kempegowda at airport, reaches out to VokkaligasTo make Kempegowda "immortal", the government has also decided to to reconstitute the Kempegowda Development Authority, and release Rs 100 ...
- Amit Shah to protest in Dharwad against Congress disruption of ParliamentThe region, which is dominated by the Lingayats, accounts for 50 assembly seats in the poll-bound state of Karnataka. The community has vot...
- Amit Shah’s no to Lingayat minority tag, SC verdict on Dalits may influence Karnataka pollsThe development may lead to the two communities largely supporting Congress in the polls, but observers said the issues could go either way...
- Why the writers and thinkers of India face a critical Nirbhaya momentFor the literary circle in the country that is returning its awards and resigning from representative bodies, it is the Nirbhaya moment.
- Caste over party: Two JD(S) stalwarts raise banner of revoltThe denial of the chief ministership in Karnataka to B S Yediyurappa may have already triggered the process of Lingayat consolidation behin...
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