The Lingayat community is led by Mr. Gadag-based Tontadarya Mutt's Siddalinga Swami, met the Chief Minister Mr. Siddaramaiah on last Sunday at his residence.
"I have been an ordinary Congress, grassroots worker for past many years. Till today, I am in Congress, but the contribution has not been recognised. Next week am going to take a decision".
The congress president claimed that his party believes in taking together the poor, dalits, advasis, backward communities and downtrodden.
"You stood by my grandmother during her toughest days (1977-79) and helped her achieve a historic win in the Lok Sabha by-election from here in 1978," said Gandhi at a public rally
The Karnataka government had recommended the two's inclusion as synonyms of 'Nayaka' appearing at SI. No. 38 in the list of Scheduled Tribes in the state.
Karnataka Assembly Elections 2018 is one of the most keenly awaited electoral battles of 2018.
Keeping all these political issues and twists and turns in Karnataka State, The entire nation and Karnataka state is eagerly waiting for the election and who will win.
Rupani secured a comfortable win from Rajkot West seat by 1,31,586 votes, which is the largest constituency in the Saurashtra region
The next key battle the market will watch out for will be in Congress-ruled Karnataka
As the BJP managed to form a government with 99 seats, eight more than a simple majority, margins of victory as well as defeat are crucial
A low-profile man is acting as a catalyst for long-awaited political change
Hardik and his supporters, who were on their bikes, had organised a roadshow on December 11, despite being denied permission by the district authorities, Bopal Police said
The BJP won 72% of the seats from urban areas, while the main opposition party got 89% of their seats from the villages
BJP won 99 seats in the 182-member Assembly, securing seven seats more than the 92 needed for a simple majority, while the Congress and its allies won 80
The BJP victory in Gujarat Assembly election 2017 might suggest the party, in the power, faced no anti-incumbency. But there is more to the verdict than that. Here are some of the key takeaways
The December 2017 elections has also shown the opposition Congress eating into portions of the once-exclusive urban pie of the BJP
As many as 338 candidates contested the 2017 assembly elections in Himachal of which only 5 per cent (19) were women candidates
The BJP won 99 of 182 seats-the least it has since it first came to power in 1995 with 121 seats
This is a moment full of possibility for the articulation of a Dalit-Bahujan oriented left-wing politics - not just in Gujarat but elsewhere in the country
BJP defeats Congress 2-0; it's the beginning of Rahul Gandhi's political story, says Congress