A clash broke out between the police and the protesters belonging to the Panchamasali Lingayat community, who have been demanding inclusion in the 2A category of Other Backward Classes reservation, outside the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha on Tuesday, police said, adding that about 20 people were injured in the incident. Belagavi: Police stop protestors who tried to barge into Suvarna Vidhana …
Once more, Karnataka is set for an “orange” versus “saffron” battle. In 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then chief minister B S Yediyurappa began the task of cohering Basava’s Anubhava Mantapa to “Sanatana Pragatipara”, a progressive Hinduism. But many important Lingayat Swamis have held on to Basava’s 12th century rebellion as marking not only the repudiation of Brahminical Hinduism …
