Lingayat
- India
Some Lingayat seers ask BJP to change its Dharwad LS candidate Joshi
Hubballi: A few Lingayat seers in the region met here on Wednesday and asked the BJP central leadership to change the party’s Dharwad Lok Sabha candidate Prahlad Joshi, Fakira Dingaleshwar Swamiji of…
- Bangalore
Karnataka caste census: Veerashaiva-Lingayats, Vokkaligas raise objection to report
Bengaluru: A day after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah accepted the socio-economic and education survey report, popularly known as the “caste census”, trouble seems to be mounting for the Congress government with dominant…
- Bangalore
After Lingayat event, major pro-caste census rally to be held in Karnataka city
Bengaluru: After Lingayat convention, the oppressed classes and minorities have decided to hold a massive rally in Chitradurga city in Karnataka to counter the influential castes ‘pressurising’ the government not to accept…
- Bangalore
Under Lingayat, Vokkaliga pressure, Karnataka Cong treads cautiously
Bengaluru: Following the Bihar government making its caste census report public, Karnataka’s Congress government is under pressure to accept the state’s caste census report pending for years. However, the government led by…
- Bangalore
Special court dismisses complaint against Siddaramaiah over Lingayat CM comment
Bengaluru: A private defamation complaint against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on his comment about a Lingayat chief minister during the recent Assembly election has been dismissed by an Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate…
- India
Karnataka: Lingayats seek CM post; Shivakumar, Siddaramaiah parley
Bengaluru: As the tussle for the next Karnataka Chief Minister intensifies, the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha has written to the Congress high command demanding the coveted post for the community. In its…
- Bangalore
Not only Lingayat, BJP lost Dalit & OBC votes too in Karnataka
Bengaluru: When former chief minister and Lingayat strongman B.S. Yediyurappa stated in BJP’s national executive meeting that Karnataka elections can’t be won with the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the party…
- India
Lingayat factor deals blow to BJP in north Karnataka
Hubbali: The massive victory of the Congress in the seven districts of north Karnataka is considered as a major setback for the BJP in its bastion. The BJP, which held 40 seats…
- India
Lingayat Forum a fictional organisation: Karnataka CM Bommai
Hubballi: The Lingayat Forum is a fictional organisation as it does not exist at all, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said on Monday. The Chief Minister told reporters here that Veerashaiva is…
- Bangalore
Kharge, Siddaramaiah’s statements offer BJP way out of Lingayat humiliation charge
Bengaluru: As Karnataka inches closer to assembly elections, the BJP and the Congress campaigns are getting nastier as the BJP finds itself pushed into a corner over the way it treated prominent…
- Bangalore
Defamation case lodged against Siddaramaiah for statement on Lingayats
Bengaluru: A defamation case was lodged on Tuesday against Karnataka’s Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah over his alleged statement on corruption practised by Lingayat Chief Ministers in the state. Activist Shankar Sait had…
- Politics
BJP top brass rushes to save Lingayat votes as they woo Yediyurappa
Bengaluru: The ruling BJP in Karnataka is making all attempts to mollycoddle former chief minister and BJP Central Parliamentary Board member B.S. Yediyurappa ahead of the assembly polls. The party has elevated…
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