Veerashaiva-Lingayats to seek separate religion code in upcoming census
Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy, president of Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes H. Kantharaj, and a team of enumerators at the inuguaration of the caste census in Bengaluru in 2015. The survey has put the population of Veerashaiva-Lingayats in Karnataka to be about 66.35 lakh of the 5.98 crore surveyed, or about 11% of the…