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K'taka govt overturning UPA 2013 decision on Lingayats, says Union minister

| Mar 20, 2018, 10:15:47 PM | Times Now

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Union minister Ananth Kumar on Tuesday said the Congress government's move on grant of religious minority status for the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community was "vote-bank politics", and claimed the UPA government had rejected a similar proposal in 2013 saying Scheduled Caste members of the group would lose reservation benefits. The minister's remarks came a day after the Karnataka Cabinet decided to recommend to the Centre grant of religious minority status for the numerically strong Lingayat and Veerashaiva Lingayat community.

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