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Bank holiday today on Akshaya Tritiya: Are banks open or closed in your state on April 20, 2026?Bank holiday today for Basava Jayanti/Akshaya Tritiya: Banks across India will observe several holidays in April 2026, with closures varyin...- RS Deputy Speaker, Union Ministers pay floral tribute to Guru Basaveshwara on his birth anniversaryRajya Sabha Deputy Speaker Harivansh Narayan Singh, Union Ministers, and other leaders paid floral tribute to Guru Basaveshwara at Parliame...
- All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha pushes for Veerashaiva--Lingayat leader for CM's postMahasabha President, veteran Congress leader and MLA Shamanur Shivashankarappa has written a letter to Kharge in this regard.
- Why traditional BJP supporters Lingayats voted for CongressCongress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...
- Why the BJP failed to break the 38-year-old jinx in KarnatakaThe party decided to make the “double engine” governance as the main poll plank but was unable to persuade the voters despite significant g...
- Varuna, Shiggaon, Kanakapura, Channapatna: 10 key seats that will decide the fate of Karnataka heavyweightsAs Karnataka prepares for its upcoming assembly elections, parties are leaving no stone unturned to woo voters across the state. With 224 a...
- 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...
- Lingayats hold key to electoral outcome in poll-bound KarnatakaThough Yediyurappa's new outfit KJP managed to get only six seats in that polls, it secured a vote share of about ten per cent, badly denti...
- Karnataka budget offers sops to caste groups, promises to set up Vokkaliga development boardThe announcement came four months after the government established the Karnataka Veerashaiva Lingayat Development Corporation for the to he...
- Karnataka election: Congress's Lingayat religious minority card fails, community's vote returns to BJPIf the Congress was banking on the crucial Lingayat vote in the 2018 assembly election following its decision to grant religious minority s...
- Lingayat row to linger long after Karnataka electionsBasavanna’s religion was founded in present-day Basavakalyana in Bidar district. Given his revolutionary teachings, he was persecuted by th...
- Karnataka Election: Lingayat tag not a poll issue in TumakuruWhile most Lingayats and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Tumakuru remain tight-lipped about the minority status, they admitted that the issue had ...
- Lingayatism: All you need to knowVeerashaivas, the uppermost sub-caste among the Lingayats, claim that Basavanna himself got Linga deeksha or anointment with the linga, fro...
- Lingayat pontiffs 'support' Siddaramaiah, ask BJP to back minority religion claimThe state government had last month recommended to the Centre grant of religious minority tag for the Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat com...
- 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...
- Lingayat move may not play out as planned by CongressThe move has found opposition among the Veerashaivas, also called 'Lingayat', who feel they have been left out and thus, warn the Siddarama...
- Karnataka coastal regions remain unfazed by Lingayat religion tagBJP feels cornered as a large section of the Lingayats is happy with the move and think they will reap benefits that were not available to ...
- Congress asks Amit Shah, Yeddyurappa to clear stand on Lingayat minority statusCongress's communications incharge Randeep Surjewala said the issue should not be linked with elections or the political process.
- Lingayats as minorities: Karnataka may ask centre to take callLingayats are followers of saint philosopher Basaveshwara who don’t worship idols or follow rituals, while Veerashaivas worship Lord Shiva ...
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