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"Some people with vested interests controlling BJP govt in Karnataka": Jag
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Jagadish Shettar filed his nomination from the Hubli-Dharwad-Central Assembly constituency on Wednesday for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly Elections.
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BJP govt rendered justice to all communities including Lingayats: CM Bomma
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Talking to reporters in Bhalki in Bidar district, he said, "BJP Government has rendered justice to all the communities including Lingayat and ensured recognition to all of them. Congress government tried to break the Lingayat religion."
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Yediyurappa holds meeting with Lingayat leaders, Mahesh Tenginkai says com
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Highly upset by the exit of two top Lingayat leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party, former Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa called a meeting of several MLAs belonging to the community to deliberate on the action plan as the state Assembly elections are less than a month from now, so
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"No decision made on Lingayat chief minister": K'taka CM after Yediyurappa
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday denied having made any decision by the party on the Lingayat chief minister and said that the meeting convened by senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa was to take stock of the political situation in the state.
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"My first preference was BJP": Lingayat MLC Ayanur Manjunath quits party,
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Manjunath, a former BJP MLC and a prominent Lingayat face, quit the party on Thursday over the denial of the ticket from the Shivamogga constituency and joined the JD(S).
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BJP has full support of Lingayat community in Karnataka: Yediyurappa's son
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former chief minister BS Yediyurappa's son B Y Vijayendra who got the party ticket from Shikaripura on Wednesday hit out at Congress for creating a divide in the Lingayat community and assured that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the part
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BJP sharpens attack on Congress in Karnataka; Bommai says Lingayat voters
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
BJP president JP Nadda, who was in Karnataka, also attacked the Congress and accused its leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of being "patron" of PFI
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Congress showers special love on Lingayats during elections: CM Bommai
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"Lingayat voters in Karnataka are vigilant and they have always taken the right decision when required. Congress Party has shown special love for them (Lingayat) after the Assembly elections were announced but it's the same party which tried to divide the Lingayats and Veerashaivas. The p
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"Rahul Gandhi's politics consists of lies, hit jobs": Union Min Chandrasek
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Hitting back at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks that the BJP is attacking the democracy of Basavanna, founder of the Lingayat sect, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Monday said that the former MP's politics consists of lies and hit jobs.
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Karnataka polls: Prominent Lingayat leaders Jagdish Shettar, Mahesh Tengin
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday exuded confidence that the newly fielded candidate Mahesh Tenjinakai will win the Karnataka Assembly polls with a margin of 50,000 votes.
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BJP falling like house of cards: Jairam Ramesh on ex-Karnataka CM Shettar
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
After prominent Lingayat leader and former Karnataka chief minister Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined Congress ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections, Congress general secretary in-charge communication Jairam Ramesh on Monday took a swipe at
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Jagadish Shettar will be thrown out after use by Congress: Karnataka CM Bo
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
After prominent Lingayat leader Jagadish Shettar defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Congress ahead of the upcoming Karnataka assembly elections, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said the former Karnataka chief minister would be used and later thrown out by C
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