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Lok Sabha polls | Thanks to thin margin of victories, parties in Kerala too now try to woo Lingayat voters

Veerashaiva-Lingayats community in Karnataka expanding political influence to Kerala ahead of Lok Sabha elections, attracting party attention.

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Parties accused of discriminating against Dalit politicians in ticket allocation

Dalit Maha Sabha in Mysuru accuses Congress and BJP of discriminating against Dalit leaders in ticket distribution.

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Sudugadu Siddha Mahasabha demands security for its people

The nomadic Sudugadu Siddha community seeks protection and basic needs after being harassed and assaulted by upper caste people.

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Vishwakarma Mahasabha urges ZP to help return building to carpenter families in Gurmitkal

The Yadgir district unit of the Akhila Karnataka Vishwakarma Mahasabha has urged the Zilla Panchayat to help hand over carpenter building in Chinnakar village of Gurmitkal taluk back to the families from whom the gram panchayat had taken it for use.

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Veerashaiva Mahasabha asks community members not to describe themselves as Hindus

Veerashaiva Mahasabha urges community members to use Veerashaiva or Lingayat in population census, demands fresh caste census & Central OBC status.

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Seers, Mahasabha office-bearers call for ‘scientific caste census’

Seers of various Veerashaiva Lingayat mutts, office-bearers of Veerashaiva Lingayat Mahasabha and leaders unanimously announced at the 24th Convention of the Mahasabha that they were opposed to what they termed as an ‘unscientific caste census’ and wanted the government to conduct a caste census in a scientific manner.

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‘More historical documents unearthed prove Lingayatism is an independent religion’

National General Secretary of Jagatika Laingayat Mahasabha Shivanand Jamdar has said more historical documents unearthed recently further prove that Lingayatism is an independent religion

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Veerashaiva Mahasabha urges Karnataka government to undertake a fresh and ‘scientific’ caste census

Mahasabha urges Karnataka govt. to conduct fresh, "scientific" caste census based on facts.

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100th birthday celebrations of veteran leader Bheemanna Khandre on December 2

Akhila Bharat Veerashaiva Lingayat Mahasabha and Bidar Shanti Vardhak Education Society will be celebrating 100th birthday of former Minister and former president of Akhila Bharat Veerashaiva Mahasabha Bheemanna Khandre, at Bheemanna Khandre Institute of Technology in Bhalki in Bidar district on December 2.

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After Vokkaligara Sangha, Veerashaiva Mahasabha too demands redoing caste census

Shortly after Vokkaligara Sangha, the All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha has also taken objection to the Socio-Economic and Education Survey, popularly called caste census, and demanded that the State government not accept its report. The Veerashaiva body has demanded that the entire exercise be redone.

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Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha condemns Centre’s move

BelagaviJagatika Lingayat Mahasabha condemns Union govt's move to return proposal for religion status. Mahasabha urges State govt to resend proposal with necessary changes. Mahasabha to organise several events in coming months, incl. all-India women's meet & youth conference. Central committee meeting held in Belagavi. Mahasabha to elect new governing body…

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Rename Hubballi Airport after Basaveshwara, says Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha

BelagaviJagatika Lingayat Mahasabha members unanimously passed a resolution to rename Hubballi Airport after 12th century reformer saint Sri Basaveshwara. They also sought renaming of a metro station in Bengaluru, re-installing his statue at Basaveshwara Park in Hubballi and strict action against those who sent threatening letters to Sri Nijagunanda Swami.…

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Shivashankarappa’s statement sets off murmurs over postings to Veerashaiva-Lingayats

Are Congress Ministers and MLAs divided over providing prominent postings to officials belonging to Lingayat-Veerashaiva community in the government? Speculation around this question has been set off after veteran Congress leader and All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha president Shamanur Shivashankarappa claimed at a function in Bengaluru that civil servants belonging to…

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‘Extortion, personal rivalry’: What motivated a cow slaughter ‘conspiracy’ in Agra

On the intervening night of Ashtami and Navami, the police in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra traced a calf’s body near a garbage dump after receiving a tip from the Hindu Mahasabha about alleged cow slaughter. An FIR was filed on a complaint from Hindu Mahasabha mandal president Jitendra Kushwaha, and the…

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Veerashaiva-Lingayats seek State’s recommendation for inclusion in Central OBC list

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Protest as statue of Basaveshwara is desecrated

Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha demands stern action against those involved

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Yadava Mahasabha demands women’s reservation bill with OBC sub-quota

It also seeks caste census to determine the benefit each community deserves

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Veerashaiva-Lingayats seek State’s recommendation for inclusion in Central OBC list

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Veerashaiva Lingayat leaders and officials being harassed, says Mahasabha

Various units have written to the Chief Minister seeking immediate steps

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Hindu Mahasabha pays tribute to Nathuram Godse

Right-wing group confers ‘Bharat Ratna’ on Kalicharan Maharaj

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