Lingayat leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengaluru, Karnataka, have advocated launching a ‘Lingayat Chief Minister’ campaign in the poll-bound Karnataka to counter Congress’s claim of labeling the ruling party as ‘anti-Lingayat’. The politically influential Lingayat community accounts for about 348 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. ,Lingayat leaders suggested

BJP’s Lingayat leaders held a meeting on Wednesday evening 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? ,BJP’s statement on the displeasure of the Lingayat community

On the other hand, on the question of resentment of Lingayat community, BJP leader K. S. Eshwarappa said that the candidate from the Lingayat community is standing, so Lingayats should vote for us, we do not say that people who are Hindutva should vote for the BJP, be it Lingayat, Kurba, Brahmin. By playing the Lingayat card, the Congress is trying to win elections by dividing castes. ,Senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi join Congress

Tell you that, senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi 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 compensate for the loss. ,Congress file has been a rumour- Bommai

Here, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, while answering the questions of journalists on Thursday, confirmed that it was decided in the meeting to firmly counter the ‘misleading information’ being spread by the Congress on ‘certain issues’, Bommai said, ”994 since the last Over the years, the Congress did not win any election except for Virendra Patil’s nine-month tenure. Lingayat has not been made the Chief Minister. ,Congress misbehaved with senior Lingayat leaders- Bommai

The Chief Minister said that 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 five years ago to create a ‘vote bank’. sought a separate religious status). “There is respect and opportunity for everyone in the BJP,” Bommai said, alleging that the Congress had “betrayed” Dalits, Lingayats and backward classes.

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Thu, Apr 20, 2023, 6: 45 PM IST