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Cracks within Congress, BJP Lingayat leadersAs Karnataka prepares for a caste survey, a divide has emerged within the Lingayat community regarding their religious identity. While the ...- 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...
- Can Pralhad Joshi pull off another win against upbeat Congress?In Dharwad, Pralhad Joshi benefits from Dingaleshwar Swami's withdrawal, while Congress guarantees and assembly seat split play crucial rol...
- As Minister Joshi seeks fifth term from Dharwad, Congress guarantees pose a challengePralhad Joshi aims for fifth MP term amid Lingayat seer withdrawal. Congress challenges with guarantees, differing responses in Hubballi-Dh...
- Congress will consider backing seer who vowed to take on Pralhad JoshiKarnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar has notruled out the possibility of the party backing a prominent seer who announced he would c...
- Many BJP members feel changes to quota policy led to their defeatThe candidates freely aired their opinion at the introspection meeting organised by the BJP in Bengaluru with BJP national general secretar...
- Supreme Court defers hearing on pleas challenging scrapping of four per cent Muslim quota in KarnatakaThe Karnataka government has been given until April 25 to respond to a batch of legal challenges over its scrapping of the four per cent Mu...
- 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...
- BJP falls back on Yediyurappa, makes him 'mascot' for Karnataka Assembly pollsThe reasons are not far to seek as to why Yediyurappa has been pushed to the top of the campaign plank, the four-time Chief Minister, who b...
- Shivakumar rejects allegations Congress is targeting Bommai as he is Lingayat"Has he (Bommai) become the Chief Minister on the basis of his Lingayat caste? He is in power as per the Constitution. We are targeting the...
- With B S Yediyurappa on board, BJP confident of smooth transition in KarnatakaWhile the resignation of B S Yediyurappa has the political circles speculating about the fallout in terms of how he has taken it and in the...
- Seers, even Congress leaders, warn BJP of backlash if CM Yediyurappa is replacedSeveral seers and leaders of the dominant community, which is estimated to form about 16 per cent of the states population, have cautioned ...
- Reservation demands: Government discussing modalities regarding way forward, says CM YediyurappaThe state government is facing demands for revision of the existing quota from various communities, including the dominant Vokkaliga and Ve...
- Amid Siddaramaiah-Sreeramulu contest, less-known Mavinamarad of JD(S) is putting up a fightMavinamarad quit the Congress a year ago to join the JD(S), is making it a triangular fight.Observers say it is a straight contest between ...
- Development our only agenda: PM Modi to Karnataka BJP workersThe Prime Minister also spoke against Siddaramaiah's Lingayat move saying it showed how the Congress party indulged in caste politics
- Lingayats are part of the Hindu fold, the move to separate them is unnatural: OrganiserCalling the Karnataka's decision to give minority status to Lingayats as ‘lopsided’, editor Prafulla Ketkar said the issue has raised the p...
- Old conflict, new hope: Lingayat as a religion? A quick primerVeerashaiva-Lingayats believe Yeddyurappa will give them justice, while the Siddaramaiah government is accused of conspiring to split the c...
- Karnataka cabinet to discuss on religious minority tag to LingayatsThe demand for a separate religion tag to Veerashaiva/ Lingayat faiths has surfaced from the numerically strong and politically-influential...
- After Narendra Modi’s jibe, Rahul Gandhi visits Lingayat saint Basavanna’s shrineGandhi has been touring Lingayat strongholds over the last three days and ended this round of campaigning at the community’s holy ground of...
- Lingayats renew demand for KPCC chief post in KarnatakaShamanur Shivashankarappa, who is spearheading the movement, reiterated that Lingayat leaders continued to be neglected in Congress in Karn...
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