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Cracks within Congress, BJP Lingayat leadersAs Karnataka prepares for a caste survey, a divide has emerged within the Lingayat community regarding their religious identity. While the ...- BJP Lingayat leaders discuss about next CM from the communityThe meeting, held on Wednesday late evening at Yediyurappa’s residence in Bengaluru in the presence of chief minister Basavaraj Bommai and ...
- Post election victories in 3 states, Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy may find Congress more assertiveSenior Congress leaders will start asserting themselves and demand their pound of flesh more vocally after election victories in three majo...
- Siddaramaiah hits back at DK Shivakumar over comment on 'minority tag' to Lingayatshivakumar had remarked that the previous Congress government committed a blunder by recommending minority status for Lingayats.
- Lingayat issue backfired on us: RV DeshpandeThe Congress strategy on Lingayat issue went wrong. There was no necessity for us to rake it up.
- Siddaramaiah gets emotional at MLAs' meet, senior leaders blame him for defeatThe 69-year-old leader received flak from several senior party MLAs, who held him responsible for the Congress' performance
- Karnataka Elections 2018: The ‘Bhagya’ Vidhata’s errorsPopulist measures, a smart campaign, one big risk: Seemed like Siddaramaiah did all the right things. But poll results show otherwise. We t...
- Poll trends disappointing, need to rethink caste management: Veerappa MoilyThe Congress should not have raised the Lingayat issue before the polls, Moily said.
- Rahul-Siddu fail to charm voters, Karnataka sticks to its traditional voting patternThe poll outcome shows the campaign rallies addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah have worked, and Modi con...
- Grapes of wrath in ‘Punjab’ of Karnataka, VijayapuraThanks to irrigation and District-in-charge minister MB Patil’s zealous role to get a separate religion status for the Lingayats, the inten...
- Suspect JDS getting indirect funding from BJP, says SiddaramaiahKarnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the BJP was indirectly funding Gowda's JDS and India was an ATM for the saffron party.
- Swamis opposing minority tag are selfish and hurting devotees: Shivamurthy Murugarajendra, Lingayat priestMurugarajendra said he is confident that people will understand the implications of the move and that pontiffs opposing the move were selfi...
- 'Modi wave' sweeping Karnataka, says B S YeddyurappaPollsters have predicted a hung Assembly in Karnataka, with neither the ruling Congress nor the BJP attaining a majority.
- Yeddyurappa a sidekick to Delhi leaders: G Parameshwara, Congress, Karnataka Unit PresidentParameshwara said the Congress party has not taken a decision on the Lingayat issue and that chief minister Siddaramaiah projecting himself...
- Lingayat move will cost Congress 40 of 50 seats in northwest Karnataka: BJP leaderSiddaramaiah’s actions have ensured that BJP will sweep all the Lingayat dominant regions, says Umesh V Katti.
- Amit Shah to reach out to Lingayats on Basava JayanthiThe Lingayats, who consider Basaveshwara the founder of a separate religion, have been supporters of the BJP from the late 1990s.
- Congress to not gain much from Lingayat move: Karnataka PCC chiefCong's state chief insisted that the Siddaramaiah-led ruling party's move to grant religion status to the Lingayats was not for electoral g...
- Farmer suicides have increased under Congress: Amit ShahAmit Shah is on a two-day Karnataka tour in which he is expected to visists mutts associated with the Lingayat and Dalit communities.
- On two-day visit to Karnataka, Amit Shah to reach out to top Lingayat muttsShah’s visit to central Karnataka is on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a rally in Davanagere on February 28.
- Communal riots flare up, CM Siddaramaiah stokes Kannada prideThe state has seen a series of incidents where communal fires are being deliberately fanned, particularly in the volatile coast and hilly d...
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