With the Lok Sabha polls on the anvil, the Panchamasali Lingayat Reservation Agitation Committee has planned to re-launch an agitation through its mega convention in Kalaburagi on March 12, to press for its long-pending demand for inclusion under Category 2A and bringing all Lingayat sub-castes under central OBCs list.
Committee president Basava Jaya Mrutyunjaya Swami of Kudalasangama Panchamasali Peeth told presspersons in Kalaburagi on Wednesday that even after the 712 km-padayatra across the State and performing “Ishtalinga Pooje” on highways in the last three years, the government had ignored their demand.
He said that, along with a delegation of Lingayat legislators, he had met Chief Minister Siddaramaiah during the winter session in Belagavi in December last year. Mr. Siddaramaiah, who had assured them of holding a meeting within a week had failed to respond even after three months, he alleged.
