MLA Shamanuru Shivashankarappa.
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Veteran Congress leader and All India Veerashaiva Mahasabha president Shamanuru Shivashankarappa on Thursday alleged that the bureaucrats belonging to Veerashaiva-Lingayat community were getting a raw deal in postings.
After receiving the Hanagal Kumareshwar Award, instituted by the Bengaluru unit of Mahasabha, the 92-year-old lawmaker said, “Of late, bureaucrats from Lingayat community are getting a raw deal in postings. They always enjoyed plum postings when Lingayat CMs, including S Nijalingappa, B S Yediyurappa and Basavaraj Bommai, were in power.”
He said despite being the ‘biggest’ community in the state, Lingayats are at the receiving end. “Disunity within sub-castes is the worst enemy of the Lingayat community.”