Lingayat in a sentence

While Mr. Savadi belongs to Ganiga Lingayat sub-sect, Mr. Shettar belongs to the political powerful Banajiga Lingayat sub-sect.

The issue of granting religious minority tag to the Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat community will be examined as and when the Home Ministry receives the proposal from the Karnataka government, a senior home ministry official said.

According to political observers and many within the Congress, Siddaramaiah government's decision to accord "religious minority" status to the dominant Lingayat community had resulted in electoral losses for the party in 2018 Assembly polls.

BJP Central Parliamentary Board member and former chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday told the influential Lingayat community that he is retiring fromBJP electoral politics on his own and urged them not to have any hard feelings about it.

BJP Central Parliamentary Board member and former chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Saturday told the influential Lingayat community that he is retiring from electoral politics on his own and urged them not to have any hard feelings about it.

On the other hand, they will strengthen the Lingayat lobby within the Congress, which wants its own CM.

The first one is that Congress has chosen six Lingayat candidates for inclusion in the State Cabinet and the second is the criminal case against Mr. Kulkarni, because of which he is barred from entering Dharwad district.

The presence of Anil Kumar could lead to a split of Scheduled Caste (25% of total votes in the seat) and Lingayat (30%) votes between the BJP and Congress, he says.

The senior most BJP and Lingayat leader from North Karnataka, Jagadish Shettar, quit the saffron party after being denied a ticket from Hubballi Dharwad Central, which he won successively for six times from 1994 as the party’s candidate.

Yatnal, a Lingayat leader like Yediyurappa, said.

Even the 12th Century social reformer Basaveshwara, who led the Bhakti movement, was a leading advocate of the Lingayat Dharma, which promoted direct devotion avoiding rituals.

Now, Umesh Jadhav, the BJP candidate for Kalaburagi in the current Lok Sabha elections, is raising the issue to blame Congress for the incident and seek Lingayat votes,” Mr. Allamprabhu Patil said.

While Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga, is DyCM, the likes of Parameshwar and Jarkiholi want a Lingayat, Dalit, and minority leader as additional DyCMs.

At a Lingayat gathering in the state’s Davengere district on January 15, Vachananda told Yediyurappa to make party’s Bilgi legislator Murgesh Nirani Minister, failing which the community would withdraw its support to the ruling party.

It is being speculated that the move, which is against Yediyurappa's will, is to clear the controversy around the state cabinet having a majority of ministers from CM's community (Lingayat).

Vokkaliga and Lingayat are the two dominant communities of Karnataka.

Breaking his silence on the demand for a separate religion status for Lingayats, BJP State president B.S. Yeddyurappa on Wednesday said both Veerashaiva and Lingayat are “one and the same”.

Giving the keynote address of the discussion, Lingayat community leader Basavaraja Pattadarya Maha Swamy Galu said that it was surprising for him to attend a meeting to discuss save democracy and constitution.

Shah expects HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to change rules so that Lingayat-run education institutions in Karnataka are entitled to special status and greater autonomy.

The 75-year-old Lingayat strongman was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Vajubhai Vala at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan amid loud cheering by his supporters.