The seer of the lingayat panchamasali peetha, Mrutyunjay swamiji, called for leaders of the panchamasali community to be elected who would support the fight for the 2a reservation. He was addressing the virat panchashakti samevesh, a massive convention of panchamasalis, that was organized at kamakaratti 2 km away from the suvarna vidhana soudha, SVs, on thursday aiming to pressure the government to accept the 2a reservation demand of the community. He added that he has been on a padayatra for the past two years to create awareness among the community, and has not seen his peetha in kudala sangama since then. His only goal was to secure reservations for economically backward families in the community. He thanked the leaders Basanagouda patil yatnal vijayanand kashappanavar laxmi hebbalkar hs shivashankar vinay kulkarni and others who stood by him. He called upon community members to mention panchamasali lingayat’ clearly in the caste category during the census previously. Yatn
