In a significant development, the Lingayat community staged a massive morcha at the historic Azad Maidan in Mumbai demanding a Constitutional recognition as a religious and a minority status in Maharashtra.
The protestors demanded that the work of the approved Mahatma Basaveshwar National Memorial at Mangalwedha taluka of Solapur district should be expedited.
Besides, they also demanded that an equestrian statue of Mahatma Basaveshwar should be erected in Vidhan Bhavan complex of Mumbai. They also demanded that a Mahatma Basaveshwar Economic Development Corporation should be established for the welfare of the community.
They also demanded that the Miraj railway station should be named after Mahatma Basaveshwar. There should be a separate column for the Lingayat community in the national census, they demanded.
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