The Last Census showed that there are 55 Lac Veerashiva Lingayats in the Country, where as the estimated population across the country is 3.5 Crores and around 22 % of the total population of Karnataka state out of 6 Cr Population.
The Census for 2010 has started, Lot of our brother’s mention as Hindus while the Census guys visit our homes. Various organizations of the community are fighting with the government to recognize Veerashiva Lingayats as a separate religion and the work is still in progress to get a separate code for the our Religion like others.
For this Census Government has given separate codes for each of the religions like Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Christians etc for some 6 religions. There is also code for other religions, if we need to get the approximate count of Veerashiva Lingayats in the country we need to get ourselves mentioned in the Other Religion code with a compulsorily mentioning of Veerashiva Lingayat.
The Population count will definitely help the in seeking benefits for the community from the Government of India, Karantaka and also in showing our strength.
Please Mention the following to the Census Officer.
Religion – Other Religion
Other Religion Name : Veerashiva Lingayat.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Future of Veerashiva Lingayats in Karnataka / Indian Politics.
Off late It has been noticed cutting across political party lines that the presence of lingayats in the political process both in the state and center has drastically come down, one because of the lack of unity, second because lack of support by our own people, third because of subcaste Politics, be it be BJP, congress or any other political party, the presence of Lingayats is getting diminished and we have no Political leader from our community who either young or old can lead us after Yedurappa.
The non presence of aggressive mass leader from the community in the political circle is definitely going to effect the community in large in the years to come since the dominance of other communities will rise many fold.
The political parties have no aggressive leaders to even fight for the community causes as you can see in the recently concluded BBMP ( Bhrut Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike ), The total number of lingayats who bagged the tickets are 6 out of 2200 contestants .
If we allow to create a vacuum in the political parties without proper representation and our people not taking active part we will be socially, economically, financially, educationally get suppressed similar to the political suppressant as in the present situation.
The intention of writing this mail is to seek asking people to position themselves in various political parties so that we as a dominant community retains the glory and which will benefit our people for the generations to come.
We Veerashiva Lingayats are well educated and lead in various spheres, the immediate focus should also move into the Political Arena so that our community youth Lead the state and the Nation in the future.
Please support for this cause – In Politics Numbers matters so Lets all support every lingayat in any political party to became the future Leader not for his family but for the community.
Swami Vivekananda said :
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.
The non presence of aggressive mass leader from the community in the political circle is definitely going to effect the community in large in the years to come since the dominance of other communities will rise many fold.
The political parties have no aggressive leaders to even fight for the community causes as you can see in the recently concluded BBMP ( Bhrut Bengaluru Mahanagar Palike ), The total number of lingayats who bagged the tickets are 6 out of 2200 contestants .
If we allow to create a vacuum in the political parties without proper representation and our people not taking active part we will be socially, economically, financially, educationally get suppressed similar to the political suppressant as in the present situation.
The intention of writing this mail is to seek asking people to position themselves in various political parties so that we as a dominant community retains the glory and which will benefit our people for the generations to come.
We Veerashiva Lingayats are well educated and lead in various spheres, the immediate focus should also move into the Political Arena so that our community youth Lead the state and the Nation in the future.
Please support for this cause – In Politics Numbers matters so Lets all support every lingayat in any political party to became the future Leader not for his family but for the community.
Swami Vivekananda said :
To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. "I will drink the ocean," says the persevering soul, "at my will mountains will crumble up." Have that sort of energy, that sort of will, work hard, and you will reach the goal.
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