Karnataka Election 05763: BJP’s Lingayat leaders claim the ruling party as ‘anti-Lingayat’ To answer this, he has advocated the launch of ‘Lingayat Chief Minister’ campaign in the election state of Karnataka. The politically influential Lingayat community accounts for about 39 of the state’s population. is the percentage. Most of the people of this community are in the northern parts of the state. BJP sees them as its strong supporter class.

Shettar and Laxman Savadi left BJP and joined Congress after not getting ticket

Senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi 10 On not getting ticket in the assembly elections to be held in May, he left BJP and joined Congress. Since then, the Congress has been accusing the BJP of doing ‘injustice’ to Lingayats and of being ‘anti-Lingayat’. In view of this, the ruling party has started making efforts to make up for the loss.

Lingayat leaders of BJP held a big meeting

Lingayat leaders of BJP on Wednesday evening Had a meeting at the residence of Karnataka BJP stalwart and former Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa. In this meeting, to counter the Congress discourse, it was suggested that the BJP should project a leader from the Lingayat community as the next chief minister and vigorously campaign that the next chief minister, if voted to power, would be a Lingayat community. Whose will it be? Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said the meeting decided to resolutely counter “misinformation” being spread by the Congress on “certain issues”.

Bommai made serious allegations against Congress

Bommai said, since last 664 Over the years, the Congress has not made any Lingayat the Chief Minister except during the nine-month tenure of Virendra Patil. The Chief Minister said there were many examples of how the Congress treated senior Lingayat leaders and people would not forget how the Congress tried to break the community (a separate religious status for the community) five years ago to create a ‘vote bank’. demand) was tried. Bommai said, there is respect and opportunity for everyone in the BJP. He alleged that the Congress had ‘betrayed’ Dalits, Lingayats and backward classes.

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