Lok Sabha polls | Thanks to thin margin of victories, parties in Kerala too now try to woo Lingayat voters

In Karnataka, as many as nine Chief Ministers since the State’s reorganisation in 1956 have been Veerashaiva-Lingayats, the highest among all castes.

​In Karnataka, as many as nine Chief Ministers since the State’s reorganisation in 1956 have been Veerashaiva-Lingayats, the highest among all castes.