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...

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

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...

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

After a conversation with Lingayat seers of various mutts, the seer of Muruga Mutt, Shivamurthy Muruga Sharana initiated Gandhi into Lingay...

This comes a day after a group of ministers and BJP MLAs led by Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi from the community called on Yediyurapp...

While most Lingayats and Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Tumakuru remain tight-lipped about the minority status, they admitted that the issue had ...

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

Siddaramaiah’s actions have ensured that BJP will sweep all the Lingayat dominant regions, says Umesh V Katti.

The state government had last month recommended to the Centre grant of religious minority tag for the Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat com...

Amit Shah is on a two-day Karnataka tour in which he is expected to visists mutts associated with the Lingayat and Dalit communities.

Yesterday, the Karnataka government accepted a proposal to grant a separate religion status to the Lingayat community.

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

The Congress move aims to divide the votes BJP would rely on to win. Many, however, think the community might still vote for the BJP despit...

The demand for a separate religion tag to Veerashaiva/ Lingayat faiths has surfaced from the numerically strong and politically-influential...