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Lingayat leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bengaluru, Karnataka have advocated the launch of a ‘Lingayat Chief Minister’ campaign in the poll-bound Karnataka to counter Congress’s claim of labeling the ruling party as ‘anti-Lingayat’. The politically influential Lingayat community constitutes about 17 per cent of the state’s population. Most of the people of this community are in the northern parts of the state. BJP sees them as its strong supporter class.
Lingayat leaders suggested
BJP’s Lingayat leaders held a meeting on Wednesday evening at the residence of Karnataka BJP stalwart and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa. In this meeting, to counter the Congress discourse, it was suggested that the BJP should project a leader from the Lingayat community as the next chief minister and vigorously campaign that the next chief minister, if voted to power, would be a Lingayat community. Whose will it be?
BJP’s statement on the displeasure of the Lingayat community
On the other hand, on the question of resentment of Lingayat community, BJP leader K. S. Eshwarappa said that the candidate from the Lingayat community is standing, so Lingayats should vote for us, we do not say that people who are Hindutva should vote for the BJP, be it Lingayat, Kurba, Brahmin. By playing the Lingayat card, the Congress is trying to win elections by dividing castes.
Senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi join Congress
Let us tell you that senior Lingayat leaders Jagadish Shettar and Laxman Savadi quit the BJP and joined the Congress after they were denied tickets in the assembly elections to be held on May 10. Since then, the Congress has been accusing the BJP of doing ‘injustice’ to Lingayats and of being ‘anti-Lingayat’. In view of this, the ruling party has started making efforts to compensate for the loss.
Congress file has been a rumour- Bommai
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, while answering questions from journalists on Thursday, confirmed that it was decided in the meeting to firmly counter the ‘misinformation’ being spread by the Congress on ‘certain issues’, Bommai said, “1967 Since then, in the last 50 years, the Congress has not made any Lingayat the chief minister, except for the nine-month term of Virendra Patil.
Congress misbehaved with senior Lingayat leaders- Bommai
The Chief Minister said there were many examples of how the Congress treated senior Lingayat leaders and people would not forget how the Congress tried to break the community (a separate religious status for the community) five years ago to create a ‘vote bank’. demand) was tried. “There is respect and opportunity for everyone in the BJP,” Bommai said, alleging that the Congress had “betrayed” Dalits, Lingayats and backward classes.
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