Sources confirmed that a meeting is scheduled for 17 June in Bengaluru where senior Lingayat and Veerashaiva leaders are expected to iron out their differences.
Both the Congress and the BJP can feel the churn that this decision has caused in society and have hence steered clear of openly bringing it up in the election campaign.
The JD (S) can only hope to increase its share through its alliances with 'others', while the BJP would be content with chipping into the vote share of the two main players in the Old Mysuru region.
To believe the BJP will lose the support of Lingayats en masse because of a single decision is a reductionist understanding of how parties and caste groups are aligned in India.
While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.
In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
I am no fan of Yadiyurappa. But, he has done what other timid politicians dared not do – put all these so-called “seers’ in their place. In Karnataka politics, every sect or caste has a Mutt, and a “seer”, who cannot see beyond his caste. Such people have been interfering in electoral politics too often. Politicians too have been guilty of hobnobbing with such pontiffs with the hope of garnering the votes of that particular sect. Especially, Lingayats and Vokkaligas are notorious for interference by pontiffs of their sects. It is good that Yadiyurappa has shows his place to this petty pontiff. He has received a lot of public support in Karnataka, including from other leading pontiffs. Ideally, if these seers want to play politics, they shed their saffron robe and enter electoral politics. They must not meddle in politics without any accountability.
I am no fan of Yadiyurappa. But, he has done what other timid politicians dared not do – put all these so-called “seers’ in their place. In Karnataka politics, every sect or caste has a Mutt, and a “seer”, who cannot see beyond his caste. Such people have been interfering in electoral politics too often. Politicians too have been guilty of hobnobbing with such pontiffs with the hope of garnering the votes of that particular sect. Especially, Lingayats and Vokkaligas are notorious for interference by pontiffs of their sects. It is good that Yadiyurappa has shows his place to this petty pontiff. He has received a lot of public support in Karnataka, including from other leading pontiffs. Ideally, if these seers want to play politics, they shed their saffron robe and enter electoral politics. They must not meddle in politics without any accountability.
SS want to live in politics by doing on regionalism cards. This type politics against Federalism.