The Union Home Ministry will examine in detail the Karnataka Government’s recommendation to grant religious minority tag to the lingayat and Veerashaiva lingayat community as and when it receives the proposal. The Home Ministry is expected to forward the proposal to the Registrar General & Census Commissioner for a detailed examination and suggestions. The central Government’s reaction came a day after the Congress Government in poll-bound Karnataka decided to recommend that religious minority tag be granted to the numerically strong and politically-influential lingayat and Veerashaiva lingayat community.