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...
27 Apr, 2023, 12.00 PM IST
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...
25 Apr, 2023, 02.35 PM IST
Karnataka elections all about Modi's development politics versus Congress' appeasement politics, says Amit Shah"Congress even today is indulging in appeasement politics. The four per cent Muslim reservation that was given by the Congress has been end...
24 Apr, 2023, 05.01 PM IST
Assembly polls: Caste, corruption, region, religion, rebellion make mark in Karnataka battlefieldThe caste politics in Karnataka is like in the heartland states and every party tries to get the caste mathematics right. Lingayats and Vok...
22 Apr, 2023, 12.29 AM IST
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...
18 Apr, 2023, 05.10 PM IST
All mutts supporting BJP after quota rejig; will win over 130 seats: Arun SinghA day after BJP announced its first list of candidates, the party's Karnataka in-charge claimed that BJP has "tied senior Congress leaders ...
12 Apr, 2023, 11.58 PM IST
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...
30 Mar, 2023, 12.11 AM IST
Will restore 4 pc quota for Muslims scrapped by BJP government, says Karnataka Congress chiefWhile addressing the media, DK Shivakumar said, "I am confident that Congress will come to power after the next 45 days. We will scrap all ...
26 Mar, 2023, 07.23 PM IST
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 ...
26 Mar, 2023, 05.33 PM IST
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...
24 Mar, 2023, 09.44 PM IST
Will look into Vokkaliga demand for quota hike, says Basavaraj BommaiReferring to demands from Vokkaliga community heads, including ministers from BJP, the CM said in Mysuru on Monday that he was yet to recei...
29 Nov, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
In poll-bound Karnataka, Vokkaliga leaders set Jan 23 deadline for Bommai govt to hike quota for communityVokkaligas are estimated to be the second largest community in the state, after Lingayats, and the leaders claim they make up about a fifth...
27 Nov, 2022, 03.57 PM IST
PM Modi to unveil 108-ft Kempe Gowda statue in Bengaluru on November 11 as BJP eyes community votesThe BJP regime has named the statue as the one of prosperity. The government has installed the statue in the sprawling premises of Kempegow...
27 Oct, 2022, 07.15 PM IST
Government will study, CM Bommai says after being faced with demands from Adi Chunchanagiri Mutt head for a hike in quota for VokkaligasVokkaligas are the second largest community in the state, after Lingayats. Karnataka is headed to assembly polls in about eight months, and...
18 Oct, 2022, 07.48 PM IST
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...
08 Mar, 2021, 05.51 PM IST
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...
19 Feb, 2021, 04.34 PM IST
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...
19 Feb, 2021, 10.29 AM IST