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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...- Panchamasali Lingayats intensify stir demanding 2A quota, OBCs opposePanchamasali Lingayats in Karnataka are intensifying protests, demanding reclassification to the 2A quota category from their current 2B st...
- Panchamasali Lingayats meet Siddaramaiah, seek 2A quota in education, jobsPanchamasali sub-sect is estimated to make up two-thirds of the Lingayat population, which is the single largest caste group in Karnataka.
- How the BJP and Congress vie to woo Lingayats and VokkaligasThe 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...
- Congress promises 75% quota if voted to power in KarnatakaKarnataka has a 2002 reservation policy according to which OBC and SC/ST communities have quotas in government/PSU jobs and in education. T...
- Congress seeks to turn Lingayat, Vokkaliga against BJP, claiming reversal in quota policyAICC general secretary RS Surjewala and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar attacked the ruling party, at a...
- Amit Shah defends scrapping 4 per cent reservation for Muslims in KarnatakaThe Minister added that after abolishing Muslim reservation, the BJP government increased the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Schedul...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Karnataka moves Muslims from OBC to EWS quota list, hands 2% hike to Lingayats & Vokkaligas ahead of crucial assembly pollsMuslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi subtly plays Lingayat card as BJP seeks to arrest their drift to Congress in KarnatakaThe warm relationship between the two leaders is not new. When Yediyurappa formed the first full-fledged BJP government in Karnataka in 200...
- Bommai asks Murugesh Nirani to resolve Panchamasali Lingayats' quota demands speedilyKarnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has asked his Cabinet colleague Murugesh Nirani to find a speedy resolution to the demands of Pan...
- 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...
- Quota balancing act for BS Yediyurappa as powerful Vokkaliga mutt joins issue“Members of some subsects of the Vokkaliga community are backward but are losing out on reservation benefits under the OBC quota,” said Swa...
- Lingayat consolidation for OBC tag may be a trump card for BS YediyurappaNumerous mutts of Karnataka’s dominant Lingayat-Veerashaiva community have come together to seek inclusion of 100-plus subsects in the othe...
- Two big communities’ quota clamour puts Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa in a tight spotPanchamasalis are the dominant subcaste grouping within Lingayats. There are 13 Panchamasali MLAs including two ministers in the government...
- Delhi may not clear separate religion status for LingayatsThe stand taken by the NDA ally and Dalit leader is an indication of how the government will take the battle ahead with the Congress, which...
- Karnataka Lingayat Reservation: Will Congress reap poll harvest or end up with egg on face?The Lingayat community has distanced itself from the Congress ever since the party unceremoniously removed Veerendra Patil, a Lingayat, fro...
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