{"id":15644,"date":"2017-08-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/01\/lingayat-monasteries-split-over-separate-religion-issue-congress-stands-to-gain-the-most\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:00:00","slug":"lingayat-monasteries-split-over-separate-religion-issue-congress-stands-to-gain-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/08\/01\/lingayat-monasteries-split-over-separate-religion-issue-congress-stands-to-gain-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingayat Monasteries Split over Separate Religion Issue, Congress Stands to Gain the Most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsminute.com\/article\/lingayat-mutts-split-over-separate-religion-issue-congress-stands-gain-most-65912\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KARNATAKA, INDIA, July 28, 2017 (The News Minute): The demand for a minority religion status, seems to have divided the Lingayat Mutts (monasteries) in Karnataka. Even as multiple views from Lingayat outfits and political organisations have emerged, the demand of a separate religion seems to have divided the Lingayats of northern and southern Karnataka. On July 19, the Vishwa Lingayat Mahasabha, an umbrella organisation of Lingayat Mutts and political leaders, held a mammoth rally in Bidar. This rally marked the revival of the demand for a separate religion. According to Mate Mahadevi, Head of the Basava Dharma Peetha, the convention will be held in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lingayats are not Hindus and neither are they a backward caste. We follow Basavanna&#8217;s Vachanas and not the Vedas. Hence, we should be classified as a separate religion. Just like Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism, we too want the status of a minority religion. Apart from the reason that we are not Hindus, the separate religion status will open up opportunities for the members of the community. The government provides approx. US$250 million for minorities as a grant. This will help uplift the members of the Lingayat community,&#8221; Mate Mahadevi told TNM.<\/p>\n<p>More at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KARNATAKA, INDIA, July 28, 2017 (The News Minute): The demand for a minority religion status, seems to have divided,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}