hivakumar had remarked that the previous Congress government committed a blunder by recommending minority status for Lingayats.

The Congress strategy on Lingayat issue went wrong. There was no necessity for us to rake it up.

The 69-year-old leader received flak from several senior party MLAs, who held him responsible for the Congress' performance

Populist measures, a smart campaign, one big risk: Seemed like Siddaramaiah did all the right things. But poll results show otherwise. We t...

The Congress should not have raised the Lingayat issue before the polls, Moily said.

The poll outcome shows the campaign rallies addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah have worked, and Modi con...

Thanks to irrigation and District-in-charge minister MB Patil’s zealous role to get a separate religion status for the Lingayats, the inten...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the BJP was indirectly funding Gowda's JDS and India was an ATM for the saffron party.

Murugarajendra said he is confident that people will understand the implications of the move and that pontiffs opposing the move were selfi...

Pollsters have predicted a hung Assembly in Karnataka, with neither the ruling Congress nor the BJP attaining a majority.

Parameshwara said the Congress party has not taken a decision on the Lingayat issue and that chief minister Siddaramaiah projecting himself...

Siddaramaiah’s actions have ensured that BJP will sweep all the Lingayat dominant regions, says Umesh V Katti.

The Lingayats, who consider Basaveshwara the founder of a separate religion, have been supporters of the BJP from the late 1990s.

Cong's state chief insisted that the Siddaramaiah-led ruling party's move to grant religion status to the Lingayats was not for electoral g...

Amit Shah is on a two-day Karnataka tour in which he is expected to visists mutts associated with the Lingayat and Dalit communities.

Shah’s visit to central Karnataka is on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a rally in Davanagere on February 28.

The state has seen a series of incidents where communal fires are being deliberately fanned, particularly in the volatile coast and hilly d...