Synopsis : In an apparent attempt to woo the Lingayat vote base, Karnataka Chief Minister said he would recommend renaming Namma Metro as Basava Metro. During an event, the community also demanded to recognise the Lingayat community as a separate religion.

In what is being seen as a step to bring the Congress closer to the dominant Lingayat community in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday, 5 October, said he would recommend that the Union government rename Bengaluru’s Namma Metro as ‘Basava Metro’, after the 12th-century social reformer Basavanna.

The chief minister was speaking at the closing ceremony of the ‘Basava Culture Campaign-2025’ organised to mark the anniversary of ‘Vishwaguru Basavanna’ being declared as the ‘Karnataka Cultural Leader’ in the presence of seers a

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