Even as Jagadish Shettar, the towering leader of the Lingayat community from North Karnataka, is trailing in his home constituency of Hubbali-Central Dharwad, the BJP is losing its stronghold of North Karnataka due to jumping of the fence by its top leaders to Congress.
Earlier on Wednesday, Yediyurappa came down hard on BJP turncoats Jagdish Shettar and Laxman Savadi, who recently switched over to the Congress
This comes after Jagadish Shettar became the second senior leader from the Lingayat community to leave the ruling BJP and join Congress.
The deceased seer had mentioned about the torture and honey-trapping in his death note, police said.
Constituting about 17% of the population of Karnataka, the community has been well-represented in the state throughout. Hence, it looks like no political party wants to offend the community in view of the upcoming elections in the state.
Siddharamiah had decided to grant minority religion tag to a small section of the Lingayat community, which follows the teachings of 12th century saint Basavanna, much to the annoyance of the Veershaiva Lingayats
Dubbing the Karnataka government’s notification of religious minority status to the Lingayat community an election stunt, BJP’s national President Amit…
Last Monday’s decision of the Karnataka Cabinet, based on the recommendation of the State Minority Commission, according religious minority status…
Karnataka BJP chief B S Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said the state government’s move to grant religious minority status to the…
Law Minister T B Jayachandra says they have accepted recommendations of an expert panel set up by the state to decide on the issue
