At the Basava Culture Campaign-2025 closing event, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah declared his intent to rename the Namma Metro as Basava Metro, after Vishwaguru Basavanna, a spiritual leader ...

Following the proposed move, social media quickly lit up with people saying the name should stay as it is — and maybe the focus should be on improving metro services instead The Karnataka government's ...

BENGALURU: The state government will recommend to the central government to name Bengaluru’s Metro Rail as Basava Metro after social reformer Basavanna, said Chief Minister Siddaramaiah at the ...

Siddaramaiah's statement comes in the backdrop of Opposition BJP's charge of Congress government of trying to 'divide' the Veerashaiva-Lingayat community through the Social and Educational Survey ...

Chief minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said that he will propose a plan to rename Bengaluru’s Namma Metro as Basava Metro, after the 12th-century philosopher and social reformer Basavanna, to the ...

The issue of a separate religion status for Lingayats came to the fore again after nearly a decade on Sunday, with several leaders raising it even as sharp differences in the community were also ...