As Karnataka prepares for a caste survey, a divide has emerged within the Lingayat community regarding their religious identity. While the ...

Senior BJP Lingayat leader V Somanna, who lost recent assembly polls against CM Siddaramaiah, is rallying against the anti-Yediyurappa camp...

Congress won 37 seats out of 46 Lingayat candidates fielded in Karnataka, in comparison to 13 in 2018 polls. This is its second highest tal...

Congress had fielded 46 Lingayat candidates, of whom 37 won. Only 15 Lingayats from BJP secured victory, though it fielded 69 candidates fr...

The party decided to make the “double engine” governance as the main poll plank but was unable to persuade the voters despite significant g...

Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is confronting a difficult challenge from BJP's Lingayat heavyweight, V Somanna, in Varuna assembly cons...

The caste politics in Karnataka is like in the heartland states and every party tries to get the caste mathematics right. Lingayats and Vok...

BJP leaders discussed ways to counter Congress charges and remove doubts from the minds of voters with polls less than three weeks away.

The meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...

The politically influential Lingayat community forms about 17 per cent of the State's population, mostly in northern parts of the State whi...

Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, a Lingayat himself on Tuesday in Bagalkote said, one or two Lingayat leaders from BJP defecting to other p...

Though 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...

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...

Congress lost its influence over the community after then party CM Veerendra Patil was humiliated and sacked by party chief Rajiv Gandhi mo...

If the Congress was banking on the crucial Lingayat vote in the 2018 assembly election following its decision to grant religious minority s...

Karnataka is one of the most diverse states where seven languages are spoken: apart from Kannada, there is Telugu, Tamil, Tulu, Marathi, Ko...

The development may lead to the two communities largely supporting Congress in the polls, but observers said the issues could go either way...