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'Whoever I side with secures power': Ramdas Athawale claims Modi will win 2029 pollsUnion Minister Ramdas Athawale predicts Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win the 2029 and 2034 elections. He stated that his party's suppo...- Govt’s Rs 600 Cr scheme to develop minority colonies seen Siddaramaiah’s bid to win over MuslimsKarnataka's cabinet approved Rs 600 crore for minority housing upgrades over two years, seen as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's move to regai...
- Karnataka: May 9 Yediyurappa event may turn out to be Vijayendra’s show of strengthUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will attend a major event in Karnataka celebrating BS Yediyurappa's 50 years in public life. The gathering ai...
- 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...
- Congress awards Davanagere South ticket to Shamnur clan, stirs Muslim leaders’ angerThe Congress party has named Samarth Shamnur as its candidate for the Davanagere South bypoll. This decision comes after intense lobbying f...
- 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: BSY critics rally behind Somanna as Lingayat leader braces for show of his clout with LingayatsSenior BJP Lingayat leader V Somanna, who lost recent assembly polls against CM Siddaramaiah, is rallying against the anti-Yediyurappa camp...
- Congress will come to power on its own in Karnataka; BJP's 'Operation Kamala' won't be successful, says M B PatilThe former home and water resources minister also said he has neither been sidelined nor losing his importance in the party after Jagadish ...
- Amit Shah looks to BS Yediyurappa to defeat Jagadish Shettar, other Lingayat defectorsBoth Shettar and Savadi are Lingayat leaders from the Mumbai-Karnataka (Kittur Karnataka) region, who quit the party after a lot of noise a...
- Karnataka election: BJP plans steps to counter Congress's Lingayat campaignBJP leaders discussed ways to counter Congress charges and remove doubts from the minds of voters with polls less than three weeks away.
- BJP Lingayat leaders discuss about next CM from the communityThe meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...
- BJP's leaders raise "Lingayat CM" pitch to counter Congress narrativeThe politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...
- JP Nadda visits Lingayat leader Shettar's hometown on a damage-control missionNadda's visit was being seen as an extension of BJP's efforts to neutralise any negative impact on the party's prospects from the former ch...
- Congress counts political dividends after 2 key Lingayat leaders join it, BJP seeks to counter narrativeChief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...
- Congress, BJP seek to corner each other over Lingayat 'pride'Admitting Shettar, a six-time BJP MLA from Hubli-Dharwad Central, into Congress on Monday, KPCC president DK Shivakumar claimed Lingayat le...
- 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...
- Congress not keen to pit its Panchamasali leader against Bommai in ShiggaonThe party was planning to move the 54-year-old Lingayat leader to Shiggaon to make the contest difficult for Bommai. Kulkarni is a Panchama...
- Congress reaches out to Lingayats as BJP deals with BSY 'retirement'Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...
- Congress leaders want Rahul Gandhi to ‘douse Lingayat fire’ against the partyCongress' decision on minority status has not gone down well with large sections of Lingayats. BJP has also been successful in spreading th...
- 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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