Panchamasali seer threatens to intensify stir over quota issue

Community wants government to issue order by October 1

The seer of Lingayat Panchamasali Peetha at Kudalasangama, Basava Jaya Mrutyunjaya Swami, who is spearheading the Panchamasali movement, announced on Saturday that the community would intensify the agitation for 2A reservation if the State government failed to issue an order before October 1.

Addressing a press conference along with former Congress MLA Vijayanand Kashappanavar here on Saturday, the swami said the government had taken six months’ time to decide on the issue, following which the community had suspended the indefinite agitation. “On Friday, Basanagouda Patil R. Yatnal, MLA, had again raised the issue in the the Legislative Assembly. However as there is no clear announcement from the government on the issue, we are forced to take the path of agitation,” he said.