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Waqf Land Issue: Karnataka Committee Seeks Resolution for Farmers, Temples, and Mutts
2 months ago

Waqf Land Issue: Karnataka Committee Seeks Resolution for Farmers, Temples, and Mutts

Deccan Chronicle  

HUBBALI: The Waqf Fact-Finding Committee led by Chitradurga MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol met with the Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Bill Jagdambika Pal and submitted a report highlighting alleged Waqf encroachments on agricultural lands and properties belonging to farmers, mutts, and temples. The Karjol-led fact-finding committee has prepared the report based on …

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Watch: Caste-based mutts and their influence on Karnataka politics
6 months ago

Watch: Caste-based mutts and their influence on Karnataka politics

The Hindu  

Whether it is running educational and medical institutions, engaging in charity and development works or endorsing candidates and lobbying for ministerial berths, mathas or mutts are institutions peculiar to the state of Karnataka. Today, these spiritual and religious institutions can even make or break a candidate’s electoral fortunes. Successive governments have also supported the mathas, whether by association of high-profile …

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HC grants conditional bail to Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff in Pocso case
1 year, 2 months ago

HC grants conditional bail to Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff in Pocso case

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka high court on Wednesday granted conditional bail to the former chief pontiff of Chitradurga Muruga Mutt, Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, in connection with the alleged sexual harassment of a minor girl. Muruga mutt’s chief pontiff Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru gets conditional bail in Pocso case. As per the order, the chief pontiff cannot be released from jail, though he was …

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Prominent mutt’s poll sway under lens as key seer face rape charges
1 year, 8 months ago

Prominent mutt’s poll sway under lens as key seer face rape charges

Hindustan Times  

Bengaluru Political leaders started to visit mutts to seek blessings ahead of Karnataka elections. In Chitradurga in central Karnataka, the sexual assault allegations against prominent Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru have, however, cast a looming shadow over the political influence of the Murugha mutt. After the arrest of Shivamurthy Sharanaru, Davangere-based Virakta Mutt seer Basavaprabhu was appointed the in-charge pontiff …

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Karnataka Budget Unveiled with Rs 1,000 Cr for Mutts & Temples, Fee Benefit in Govt Colleges
1 year, 10 months ago

Karnataka Budget Unveiled with Rs 1,000 Cr for Mutts & Temples, Fee Benefit in Govt Colleges

News 18  

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s please-all, pre-poll budget is targeted at pushing the Hindutva agenda of the BJP by announcing that the state government will build a “majestic” Ram Temple like the one in Ayodhya and reclaim Brand Bangalore. The Bommai government presented a “revenue-surplus” budget with no tax hikes, breaking the trend of revenue-deficit budgets for the past two …

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Karnataka Budget: Temples, mutts, cows in focus ahead of assembly election; Congress' flower-protest – India TV
1 year, 10 months ago

Karnataka Budget: Temples, mutts, cows in focus ahead of assembly election; Congress' flower-protest – India TV

India TV News  

Karnataka Budget 2023: With Assembly elections in Karnataka round the corner, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai presented his government's last budget on Friday, in which he tried to target BJP's traditional voters. Bengaluru | Ram Mandir construction will be taken up in Ramanagara, announces Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai during the Budget presentation in State Assembly Ram Mandir construction CM Bommai announced …

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Third case filed against Karnataka mutt’s former pontiff Sharanaru
2 years, 2 months ago

Third case filed against Karnataka mutt’s former pontiff Sharanaru

Hindustan Times  

The Chitradurga rural police in Karnataka have registered a first information report against Jagadguru Murugarajendra Vidyapeetha Mutt’s former pontiff Shivamurthy Muruga Sharanaru and four others for allegedly keeping abandoned children in an orphanage run by the mutt without following due procedures, officials said. The latest case against the seer, under section 33 and 34 of Juvenile Justice Act, was registered …

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Watch | Rape-accused Karnataka seer takes to wheelchair on way to cop’s office
2 years, 4 months ago

Watch | Rape-accused Karnataka seer takes to wheelchair on way to cop’s office

Hindustan Times  

Sri Murugha Mutt's Shivamurthy Murugha Sharanaru, a top religious leader of Karnataka's influential Lingayat community and now an accused in a child sexual abuse case, was on Friday taken to the deputy superintendent of police office in Challakere in a wheelchair after his medical examination was conducted at a district hospital in the southern state. In a video shared by …

Karnataka: Seer claims BJP govt taking 30% commission from grants for mutts
2 years, 8 months ago

Karnataka: Seer claims BJP govt taking 30% commission from grants for mutts

India TV News  

Highlights Dingaleshwara Swami claimed that govt cut 30% commission before releasing funds CM has taken note of the seer's allegations and assured that he will 'get to the bottom of the case' CM has urged the seer to provides more details so that a thorough investigation can be done A Lingayat seer has claimed that the BJP government in Karnataka …

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Seer accuses Karnataka govt of asking 30% cut in grants for mutts
2 years, 8 months ago

Seer accuses Karnataka govt of asking 30% cut in grants for mutts

Deccan Chronicle  

Bengaluru: After Dingaleshwara Swamiji of the Balehosur Mutt said that officials of the Karnataka government demanded a 30 per cent commission from mutts to release funds, CM Bommai on Monday said that a thorough investigation would be done if the seer provides the details. "A thorough probe would be conducted if Dingaleshwara Swamiji provides details on his statement on paying …

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After contractors, now Lingayat seer accuses Karnataka govt of taking 30% cut for grants to mutts
2 years, 8 months ago

After contractors, now Lingayat seer accuses Karnataka govt of taking 30% cut for grants to mutts

India Today  

A seer from Karnataka has alleged that grants are given to mutts only after the state government takes a 30% commission as a ‘cut’. After initially refusing to resign from his post, KS Eshwarappa tendered his resignation on Friday, stating, “I decided to resign because I don't want to put in an uncomfortable situation those who helped me rise to …

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