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CM urges Modi to recommend late Sivakumara Swami's name for Bharat Ratna
Updated : 6 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 3 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to recommend the name of late Lingayat seer Sivakumara Swami for the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna (posthumously).
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MB Patil clarifies Congress MLA's 'neglection of Lingayats' remark
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 27 (ANI): Karnataka Home Minister MB Patil on Monday clarified his party MLA BC Patil's comment about Congress "neglecting" Lingayats in the Lok Sabha polls and said that elections are won with the support of all communities of the society.
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Basava Jayanti: PM Modi pays homage to 'iconic thinker' Basaveshwara
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 7 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid homage to poet-philosopher Basaveshwara on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
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Rahul Gandhi, Kumaraswamy are 'jokers', says BJP's Basavaraj Bommai
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Hubli (Karnataka) [India], Apr 19 (ANI): BJP MLA Basavaraj Bommai on Friday said voters will decide who is a "hero" and who are the "jokers", in an apparent reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the "hero" and Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy as "jo
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Prominent Lingayat pontiff Maate Mahadevi passes away
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Mar 15 (ANI): Prominent Lingayat pontiff and Basava Dharma Peetha President Maate Mahadevi breathed her last at a private hospital here on Thursday. She was 74.
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Not announcing Bharat Ratna for Shivakumara Swami is disappointing, says C
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Kalaburgi (Karnataka) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): It is disappointing that the Central government did not announce to confer the Bharat Ratna award on Shivakumara Swami, iconic Lingayat seer who died recently, said Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday.
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PM meets Bollywood stars but skips Lingayat seer's funeral: Karnataka Dy C
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Tumkur (Karnataka) [India], Jan 23 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on Wednesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not attending the last rites of the highly revered Lingayat seer Shivakumara Swami.
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Thousands pay emotional adieu to Shivakumara Swami at his funeral
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Tumkur (Karnataka) [India], Jan 22 (ANI): The last rites of highly revered seer and practitioner of Lingayat-Veerashaiva faith of Lingayatism, Shivakumara Swami were held here on Tuesday with thousands of his devotees paying their tearful farewell to the great departed soul.
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Siddaganga seer Shivakumara Swami passes away at 111
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Tumkur (Karnataka) [India], Jan 21 (ANI): Shivakumara Swami, a highly revered seer and practitioner of the Lingayat-Veerashaiva faith of Lingayatism, passed away here on Monday at the age of 111.
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Sri Shivakumara Swamiji's condition stable, says doctor
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 17 (ANI): Lingayat religious head of Sree Siddaganga Matha, the 111-year-old Sri Shivakumara Swamiji, who is being treated for a lung infection is now stable, according to his doctor.
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MB Patil won elections by spending crores: Shamanur Shivashankarappa
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Davanagere (Karnataka) [India], Jan 14 (ANI): MB Patil, who was recently allotted the Home portfolio in the Karnataka government, had won elections by spending crores, former state minister and senior Congress leader Shamanur Shivashankarappa has alleged.
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Lingayat Sabha seeks Minority Commission's help to reach out to PM
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Dec 12 (ANI): The Lingayat Dharma Sabha on Wednesday sought the support of the National Minority Commission for legal recognition of Lingayats as a distinct religion.
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