Karnataka government agrees to recommend separate religion for Lingayats
2018-03-20
New Delhi: Ahead of Assembly polls in the state, the Congress government in Karnataka Monday agreed to recommend that Lingayats be considered part of a separate religion, ANI reported. The 12 th -century social reformer, Basavanna, founded the Lingayat community, which had distanced itself from Hindu Veerashaivas because the latterContinue Reading