Vokkaligas are the second largest community in the state, after Lingayats. Karnataka is headed to assembly polls in about eight months, and the ruling BJP is facing heat from the aggressive Congress led by DK Shivakumar, a Vokkaliga lawmaker from the Old Mysuru region. Early this month, the BJP regime decided to increase the quota for SCs from 15% to 17% and for STs from 3% to 7% and is readying a bill to get the Legislature’s approval for this.
