Belagavi,Dec.22: The Panchamasali Lingayat community padyatra, demanding more reservations to meet the educational and professional needs of its people, reached Belagavi in Karnataka on Thursday.
The community is demanding they be included in the 15 per cent OBC category of 2A. A heavy police force has been deployed at Hirebagewadi in Belagavi due to the Panchamasali padayatra being held under the leadership of the Jagadguru Basava Jaya Mruthyunjaya Swamiji of the Kundalasangama Peetha.
Karnataka Assembly is currently holding its Winter Session at the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha in Belagavi.
State Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said that the Panchamasali Lingayats are protesting peacefully for their demands and the police have made appropriate arrangements as per the number of protestors, here.
“I am sure that they won’t barge into Vidhana Soudha, they have given place and accordingly we have made police deployment and arrangements,” Karnataka Home Minister said.
Further reacting to Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut’s remarks on Wednesday, Jnanedra said: “Their language shows how immature they are. It shows his immaturity, he doesn’t know the difference between China- India border and Maharastra- Karnataka border. We are living in a federal system and I am sure that the Maharastra government will not allow such things to happen.”
