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Govt can't turn blind eye to public inconvenience: Siddaramaiah on lathi charge on PanchamasalisKarnataka CM Siddaramaiah defended the police’s lathi charge on Panchamasali agitators in Belagavi, stating the government cannot ignore la...- 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...
- Belagavi: Former Karnataka CM Jagadish Shettar fights for political survivalShettar returned to the saffron fold in Jan this year. And now, he is pitted against Congress’s Mrinal Hebbalkar, son of women and child we...
- Lok Sabha elections: Former Karnataka CM Bommai faces combative CongressBasavaraj Bommai enters Lok Sabha polls in Haveri amid tough competition from Congress and Panchamasali community's reservation demands. Es...
- 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.
- 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...
- BJP finds in tight spot as own MLA hurls daily barbs & leads stir against govtSome leaders have requested the leadership to go slow on him fearing the anger of the Panchamasali Lingayats. The BJP MLA was locked in an ...
- Govt committed on quota issue: Karnataka CM amid protests by PanchamasalisKarnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday said his government is working with commitment on the reservation issue, as Panchamas...
- 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...
- Quota for Panchamasalis: Karnataka Backward Classes Commission hits the ground runningAfter chief minister BS Yediyurappa sought 6-7 months to decide on the demands for providing additional reservation to Panchamasalis, the c...
- Karnataka Chief Minister Yediyurappa says appropriate decision will be taken on quotaThe Chief Minister was responding to BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal, who sought his statement regarding demand by the Panchamasali Lingaya...
- Two Cabinet ministers back BS Yediyurappa, ask Panchamasalis to pause protestsBoth the ministers, who had so far publicly endorsed the rally led by heads of two religious mutts seeking reservation under the 2A categor...
- Panchamasali ministers come to Yediyurappa's rescue, hit out at leaders spearheading agitation“It did not appear like a Panchamasali rally, but resembled a Congress or Kashappanavar’s convention. Yatnal is the B team of the Congress ...
- Panchamasali Lingayats’ show in Bengaluru dents B S Yediyurappa’s leadership statusSunday’s massive rally led by heads of two powerful mutts of the subsect showed Yediyurappa no longer enjoyed clout among the Panchamasalis...
- 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...
- Sangh Parivar fanning agitations of various communities demanding reservation: SiddaramaiahIn a series of tweets, the Congress stalwart advised people not to fall prey to the "mischievous misdeeds' of the Sangh Parivar" who are tr...
- Reservation demands: Govt will do whatever is possible within the ambit of law and constitution, says YediyurappaThe Chief Minister said the matter was being discussed and after consulting legal experts, the Advocate General and other important people,...
- 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...
- Yediyurappa threatens to quit as CM over seer's 'warning'Yediyurappa pointed out that he has come to power because of the Congress-JD(S) legislators who rebelled against the then coalition governm...
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