Siddaramaiah Minorities

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday directed officials concerned to formulate a Rs 1,000 crore action plan for the development of minority colonies.

Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Priyank Kharge will once again be in-charge of IT & BT department in the State, with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday affecting a minor re-allocation of portfolios to his Cabinet.

Tipu Sultan was the 18th-century Mysore ruler who is popularly known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tipu Sahib. The Karnataka government in 2015, led by former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary on November 20 as Tipu Jayanti - describing the ruler as one of the earliest freedom fighters. Tipu Ja...

The birthday of 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan will no longer be celebrated as an official festival in Karnataka, in keeping with a directive from the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government today. The BJP opposes any celebration related to Tipu Sultan on the grounds that he was a "tyrant".

The Congress and HD Kumaraswamy, whose government in Karnataka crashed in the test of strength in the state assembly on Tuesday, have promised strong action against the rebels who brought it down. All 16 rebels - 13 from the Congress and 3 from Mr Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular who resigned earlier this month, pushing the government into minority...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Saturday said he was prodded by Lingayat leaders to recommend reservation for them and that his government's recommedation to the centre to grant religious minority status had led to opposition unleashing false propangda against him.

Two days after he took oath as the chief minister of Karnataka, BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa resigned today, just minutes before his minority government was to take a trust vote on the floor of the assembly. In an emotional speech, the BJP's tallest leader in Karnataka, said, "If only people would have given us 113 seats instead of 104, we would have ...

The BJP's BS Yeddyurappa, who was sworn in yesterday as Chief Minister of a minority government in Karnataka, has to take a trust vote at 4 pm tomorrow, the Supreme Court said today, drastically slashing to 24 hours the time he has to win over more lawmakers

Lingayat were proposed to be given minority status as members of a separate religion by the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah government.

With less than a month to go for the assembly elections in Karnataka, politics over the state's Lingayat-Veerashaiva votes has found a new flashpoint - the birth anniversary of Basaveshwara, the 12th Century saint revered by both sects.

The Lingayat community - one of the key religious sects in Karnataka which largely supports the BJP - may have switched loyalties post the Siddaramaiah government's proposal to grant them minority religion status.

BJP President Amit Shah on Monday maintained that the Siddaramaiah government's move to accord separate religious minority status to Lingayats and Veerashaiva Lingayats was aimed at preventing B S Yeddyurappa from becoming Chief Minister.

BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Karnataka and its most prominent Lingayat leader in the state, doesn't seem quite sure how to react to the Congress government's recommendation that Lingayats be considered a minority religion.

Documents accessed by NDTV suggest that the BJP and the Congress, locked in a political battle over the demand for religion status to Karnataka's Lingayat community, may be guilty of double standards.

The Siddaramaiah government's move to give religious minority status to the politically powerful Lingayat community in Karnataka has run into trouble. The key socio religious body of the Veerashaiva-Lingayats, the Veerashaiva Lingayat Mahasabha, has objected to the move, hinting that it would lead to divisiveness in society

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday directed officials concerned to formulate a Rs 1,000 crore action plan for the development of minority colonies.

Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Priyank Kharge will once again be in-charge of IT & BT department in the State, with Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday affecting a minor re-allocation of portfolios to his Cabinet.

Tipu Sultan was the 18th-century Mysore ruler who is popularly known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tipu Sahib. The Karnataka government in 2015, led by former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary on November 20 as Tipu Jayanti - describing the ruler as one of the earliest freedom fighters. Tipu Ja...

The birthday of 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan will no longer be celebrated as an official festival in Karnataka, in keeping with a directive from the BS Yediyurappa-led BJP government today. The BJP opposes any celebration related to Tipu Sultan on the grounds that he was a "tyrant".

The Congress and HD Kumaraswamy, whose government in Karnataka crashed in the test of strength in the state assembly on Tuesday, have promised strong action against the rebels who brought it down. All 16 rebels - 13 from the Congress and 3 from Mr Kumaraswamy's Janata Dal Secular who resigned earlier this month, pushing the government into minority...

Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Saturday said he was prodded by Lingayat leaders to recommend reservation for them and that his government's recommedation to the centre to grant religious minority status had led to opposition unleashing false propangda against him.

Two days after he took oath as the chief minister of Karnataka, BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa resigned today, just minutes before his minority government was to take a trust vote on the floor of the assembly. In an emotional speech, the BJP's tallest leader in Karnataka, said, "If only people would have given us 113 seats instead of 104, we would have ...

The BJP's BS Yeddyurappa, who was sworn in yesterday as Chief Minister of a minority government in Karnataka, has to take a trust vote at 4 pm tomorrow, the Supreme Court said today, drastically slashing to 24 hours the time he has to win over more lawmakers

Lingayat were proposed to be given minority status as members of a separate religion by the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah government.

With less than a month to go for the assembly elections in Karnataka, politics over the state's Lingayat-Veerashaiva votes has found a new flashpoint - the birth anniversary of Basaveshwara, the 12th Century saint revered by both sects.

The Lingayat community - one of the key religious sects in Karnataka which largely supports the BJP - may have switched loyalties post the Siddaramaiah government's proposal to grant them minority religion status.

BJP President Amit Shah on Monday maintained that the Siddaramaiah government's move to accord separate religious minority status to Lingayats and Veerashaiva Lingayats was aimed at preventing B S Yeddyurappa from becoming Chief Minister.

BS Yeddyurappa, the BJP's chief ministerial candidate in Karnataka and its most prominent Lingayat leader in the state, doesn't seem quite sure how to react to the Congress government's recommendation that Lingayats be considered a minority religion.

Documents accessed by NDTV suggest that the BJP and the Congress, locked in a political battle over the demand for religion status to Karnataka's Lingayat community, may be guilty of double standards.

The Siddaramaiah government's move to give religious minority status to the politically powerful Lingayat community in Karnataka has run into trouble. The key socio religious body of the Veerashaiva-Lingayats, the Veerashaiva Lingayat Mahasabha, has objected to the move, hinting that it would lead to divisiveness in society