The 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...

Karnataka has a 2002 reservation policy according to which OBC and SC/ST communities have quotas in government/PSU jobs and in education. T...

AICC general secretary RS Surjewala and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar attacked the ruling party, at a...

The Minister added that after abolishing Muslim reservation, the BJP government increased the reservation for the Scheduled Castes, Schedul...

The 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...

The 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...

Lingayats, Vokkaligas not beggars to accept from Muslim quota, retorts Shivakumar. The KPCC president on Monday reiterated that his party w...

The BJP-led Karnataka government’s decision to remove Muslims from the other backward classes (OBC) list and move them to the economically ...

Muslims earlier came under the 2B classification. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai told the media that the Muslims would move into the EWS q...

The warm relationship between the two leaders is not new. When Yediyurappa formed the first full-fledged BJP government in Karnataka in 200...

Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai has asked his Cabinet colleague Murugesh Nirani to find a speedy resolution to the demands of Pan...

The state government is facing demands for revision of the existing quota from various communities, including the dominant Vokkaliga and Ve...

“Members of some subsects of the Vokkaliga community are backward but are losing out on reservation benefits under the OBC quota,” said Swa...

Numerous mutts of Karnataka’s dominant Lingayat-Veerashaiva community have come together to seek inclusion of 100-plus subsects in the othe...

Panchamasalis are the dominant subcaste grouping within Lingayats. There are 13 Panchamasali MLAs including two ministers in the government...

The 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...

The Lingayat community has distanced itself from the Congress ever since the party unceremoniously removed Veerendra Patil, a Lingayat, fro...