The Veerashaiva Lingayat discussion board, a strong group of the Lingayat sect, has issued an open letter supporting the Congress within the May 10 elections for the Karnataka Assembly. The discussion board has urged the members of the Lingayat group to vote for the Congress candidates within the elections. The Lingayat group has been a conventional vote financial institution of the BJP and because the Eighties the occasion chief BS Yediyurappa, who’s from the group, had labored tirelessly to develop the Lingayat help and base.
However, with experiences of Yediyurappa being sidelined and senior chief with trustworthy credentials and former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar denied a seat from his bastion, Hubbali, the group is in anger in opposition to the BJP. Jagadish Shettar has overtly lashed out stating that BJP nationwide organising secretary, B.L.Santhosh, a Brahmin, denied him a ticket. There is a message that the BJP was attempting to systematically cut back the affect of the Lingayat group in BJP.
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The Lingayat is a strong group with 17 per cent power in Karnataka and the state had 9 Lingayat Chief Ministers. Congress leaders, Shamanur Shivasankarappa and Jagadish Shetter met the seers of the Lingayat group at Hubbali on Sunday morning. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi visited the Sangamantha temple final week, which is the sacred Samadhi of the Lingayat sect founder, Basaveswhara also called Basavanna.
With elections on May 10, the help prolonged by a piece of the highly effective Lingayat sect has given large increase to the Congress.
(With inputs from ANI)
