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Lakhs attend Lingayat rally, push for religion status; BJP stays away

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August 23, 2017

Belagavi, Aug 23: The mega Lingayat convention and rally organized at Lingaraj College Grounds here on Tuesday to put pressure on the state and central governments to accord the separate religion status to the community saw lakhs of people converging from different parts of Karnataka and neighbouring states. However, BJP leaders stayed away from the event.

The convention concluded with a single resolution that Lingayats belong to a separate religion and it should get constitutional recognition. Besides, all participants pledged to fight for separate religion status till the demand is met.

This is the second mega rally of Lingayats in the state after the one at Bidar. The meet claimed the Lingayat religion had come into existence after the 12th century revolution that had opposed Vedic religion that promoted caste and gender discrimination.

Siddalinga Swami of Tontadarya Mutt, Gadag, Muruga Sharanaru of Bruhan Mutt, Chitradurga, Mate Mahadevi of Basava Dharama Peeta and over 50 other seers representing different mutts, political leaders of community from the Congress and the JD(S) participated. However, Lingayat leaders from the BJP abstained from the rally.

Senior JD(S) leader Basavaraj Horatti said the government should accord religion status to Lingayat or face the consequences and anger of the community. Lingayats and Veerashaivas are totally different. Akhila Bharatha Veerashaiva Mahasabha should realise that Lingayat was a complete religion in view of its unique philosophy.

Horatti criticised the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for his statement that Lingayats should remain in Hinduism. The struggle will go on until Lingayat was recognised as an independent religion, he added.

Retired IAS officer Shivanand Jamdar said it was not an effort to establish a new religion but a struggle seeking recognition for an already existing one. "When we are not Hindus, the question of we deserting Hinduisim would thus not arise,” he added.

Minister for Mines and Geology Vinay Kulkarni said it was an apolitical movement and urged the community's political leaders to come out of the clutches of the vested interest to uphold the interest of the community. A mega rally of 25 lakh people would be organised in Benglauru in support of the demand, he stated.

Muruga Sharanaru of Chitradurga stressed the need for convincing other seers who had remained away from the movement. Mate Mahadevi asked the community leaders in the BJP to introspect whether their priority was politics or religion.

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MSS
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Wednesday, 23 Aug 2017

Dharma should clearly define the goal and  its own principles.

These are fundaments for existence of dharma to be  justified,

 

If Lingayat is separate, you should not imitate anything from other religion specially the way of Seers, Mutts, Kesari dress those all resembles as Hindus.

 

Lingayats should have your own.

 

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March 24,2020

Udupi, Mar 24: Four people, including two women, suspected to have infected with Coron were admitted to the hospitals in Udupi district

According to the District Administration, in all, 51 samples were sent to the laboratory for test and 40 samples have been tested negative.

The result of remaining 11 swabs were awaited.

At least 21 people had been admitted to the isolation wards of hospitals in the district. Nine had been discharged from the isolation wards after they recovered from the health complications on Monday, it further said.

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April 18,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 18: The Karnataka government has managed to get the contact details of nine out of 10 foreign nationals who had visited Jubilant Life Sciences, a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru district's Nanjangud which has been declared a coronavirus hotspot, State minister S Suresh Kumar said on Saturday.

As many as 66 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Nanjangud.

While investigating the source of virus in what is now known as 'Nanjangud cluster', the Mysuru administration could get information that 10 foreign nationals had visited this town, Kumar told reporters.

Soon the External Affairs Ministry's help was sought which managed to track nine of them, Kumar said, adding that the MEA contacted its embassies in China, Germany, Japan and the USA to track these persons.

"Out of 10, they could contact nine and got details. All of them have said that they were all healthy and they did not have any symptoms.

Hence, they did not feel the need to undergo COVID-19 tests," the minister said.

He opined that many people do not show the symptoms but they could be carriers of the virus.

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"It all depends on the person's immunity," Kumar explained.

A foreign national from Germany who had visited Nanjangud could not be reached as her contact details were not available.

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July 29,2020

Mangaluru, July 29: Justifying the transfer of Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, district in-charge minister Kota Shrinivas Poojari has accused Mangaluru MLA U T Khader of politicizing the issue. 

The IAS officer was transferred by the Karnataka government on July 28, a day after a saffron activist issued a death threat against her on social media after she warned of legal action against the miscreants who attack cattle traders.

Condemning the development, Mr Khader had tweeted that the state government has punished the deputy commissioner instead of punishing the culprit, who issued death threat.

Responding to Mr Khader’s tweet, Mr Poojari said that the transfer of the officer was on administrative ground. “It is unfortunate that Khader politicized a transfer carried out by the government on administrative ground. This is not Khader’s time to protect any accused,” tweeted Mr Poojari. 

It is worth mentioning here that Mr Khader was the district in-charge minister of Dakshina Kannada before Mr Poojari taking over the position. 

Meanwhile, police has arrested a person in connection with the death threat against the IAS officer.

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