Vijayapura MLA and Hindutva person Basanagouda Patil Yatnal, who has been expelled from the BJP, has urged Veerashaiva Lingayats to place themselves arsenic Hindus.
“If we don’t place ourselves arsenic Hindus but arsenic thing other then, we volition suffer each benefits of reservation,” Mr. Yatnal said.
Mr. Yatnal, who is simply a erstwhile Union Minister, has served arsenic the moving president of the Panchamsali Lingayat Reservation Agitation Committee.
He was speaking to reporters astatine Harugeri successful Chikkodi taluk connected Saturday.
“Leaders of immoderate organisations are going astir asking the Veerashaiva Lingayat assemblage to database their religion arsenic Lingayat and their sub-caste nether the caste column. They are utilizing theatrics to person the assemblage that it volition assistance them get peculiar designation arsenic an autarkic religion. But we request to recognize that arsenic of now, determination is nary specified recognition. The Constitution recognises lone six religion groups. Reservation and different benefits are extended lone to members of those groups. There is nary constituent successful registering our religion arsenic Lingayat, arsenic of now,” helium said.
“Basavanna fought superstitions successful Hindu nine and did not found a caller religion. I volition intelligibly accidental that Basavanna did not found immoderate religion; helium was lone a reformer.”Basanagouda Patil Yatnal,Vijayapura MLA
Some fools are starring the Veerashaiva Lingayats connected the incorrect path. If you travel them and denote your religion arsenic Lingayat and not Hindu, past you volition extremity up destroying the aboriginal of your children, helium said.
“Some Lingayat communities are successful class 2A. It is due to the fact that they are considered 1 of the galore castes of Hinduism,” helium said.
Mr. Yatnal said that Basavanna fought superstitions successful Hindu nine and did not found a caller religion. He besides argued that Lingayat is not a religion.
“Some radical assertion that Basavanna was the laminitis of the religion. But that is not true. I volition intelligibly accidental that Basavanna did not found immoderate religion. He was not a laminitis of immoderate religion, but lone a reformer. Some vested interests who are trying to make a caller religion are claiming Basavanna did it,” Mr. Yatnal said.
As agelong arsenic the Central authorities does not state Veerashaiva Lingayat arsenic an autarkic religion, it does not marque consciousness to notation Veerashaiva Lingayat arsenic a religion,” helium said.
He said that the State government’s caste census is simply a wasted exercise.
“The Congress volition implicit its word lone by dragging connected the census and the confusions surrounding them. The Congress authorities is not doing immoderate improvement work. The summation of names of Kuruba Christians and Lingayat Christians is simply a ploy by the Congress to propulsion up the numbers of minorities successful the State. The Congress volition ne'er instrumentality to powerfulness successful Karnataka,” helium said.
