16 Out of 23 Chief Ministers So Far: Looking at Lingayat-Vokkaliga Dominance in Karnataka Politics
16 of 23 chief ministers: Lingayat Vokkaliga dominance Karnataka politics; dominance of two communities state politics Lingayat community nine CMs after reorganisation 1956; Lingayat leader BS Yediyurappa first BJP CM Karnataka Vokkaliga leader HD Deve Gowda Janata Dal CM 1994 elevated to India PM June 1996; Lingayat and Vokkaliga two communities dominated Karnataka politics for decades; included in other backward class category current reservation system two communities distinctive edge state p...
Janata Dal Lingayat Rajiv Gandhi K Chengalaraya Redyy Congresd Devaraj Urs N Dharam Singh Dv Sadananda Gowda
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