National General Secretary of Jagatika Laingayat Mahasabha Shivanand Jamdar has said more historical documents unearthed recently further prove that Lingayatism is an independent religion.
Inaugurating the Dharwad district women’s wing of Jagatika Lingayat Mahasabha in Hubballi on Saturday, Mr. Jamdar said that it was lack of awareness among many of the Lingayats that had resulted in the community vociferously demanding the status. “Barring few, many of the seers of the community lacked knowledge about the independent nature of Lingayatism, which had been proved in many of the proceedings and legal documents,” he said.
The more than a century old Akhil Bharat Veerashaiva Mahasabha had been misleading the community members and the recent change in its nomenclature to Veerashaiva Lingayat Mahasabha was another ploy to mislead the Lingayats, he said.
