Congress leaders from Kalaburagi, particularly those hailing from the Lingayat community, condemned the BJP for misusing the recent attack on a Lingayat family by Dalit youths at Kotnoor (D) village to project the Congress as anti-Lingayat.
Addressing a joint media conference at the local Congress office in Kalaburagi on May 5, Medical Education Minister Sharan Prakash Patil, MLAs B.R. Patil, M.Y. Patil and Allamprabhu Patil – all from the Lingayat community – said that BJP was misusing the incident to project Congress as anti-Lingayat in a desperate bid to get the community support as it did not have any achievements to show.
A group of Dalit people had, late on April 30, barged into the house of Sangamesh, a Lingayat, who was accused in the B.R. Ambedkar’s statue desecration case reported on January 23, 2024 and assaulted his family members.
