Bengaluru: The issue of a separate religion tag for the Lingayat community is not likely to reach a conclusion before the Karnataka Assembly elections, with the seven-member expert committee set up by the State Government to study the issue having sought six months to submit its report. The committee has also made it clear that it will not submit an interim report.
The committee that met for the first time yesterday unanimously resolved to seek six months time though the State Government had asked it to submit its report within a month. If it was done in a month, the Government would have been able to make a recommendation to the Centre, based on it.
