Key Points
The Suttur fair, organised by the local Suttur mutt, is revered by Veerashaiva-Lingayats, the States largest community and draws more than two million people...
Shahs interaction with the Suttur seer and addressing the gathering is aimed at influencing and winning back the Lingayat voters, a big chunk of whom voted for the Congress in the May assembly polls helping the grand old party form the government..
The community at its convention at Davanagere in December, passed a resolution urging Siddaramaiah to junk the caste census report, and order a fresh one in an apolitical gathering that included ministers, and both Congress and BJP MLAs...
The Congress has been under pressure from OBC leaders to make the report public after the Bihar government released its survey of castes, according to which other backward classes (OBCs) and extremely backward classes (EBCs) make up more than 63% of the state population...
Siddaramaiah, a member of a backward community himself, sees the report as an opportunity to further his image as a champion of OBC groups and get OBC voters to back the Congress in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls...
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