HOME MINISTRY TO EXAMINE IN DETAIL LINAGAYAT ISSUE

NEW DELHI: The ministry of home affairs (MHA) will examine in detail the Karnataka government’s recommendation to grant religious minority tag to the Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat community as and when it receives the proposal, a senior ministry official said. The central government’s reaction came a day after the Congress government in poll-bound Karnataka decided to recommend that religious minority tag be granted to the numerically strong and politically-influential Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat community.