Shivakumara Swamiji  

Youths from Bengaluru kickstarted a signature campaign to pressurise the Centre to award the Bharat Ratna to Tumakuru's Siddaganga mutt seer, Shivakumara Swamiji. 
 

Lingayat leader Mate Mahadevi said that tonsuring heads of the 8000 students of the Mutt is a superstition and the belief of Vaidiks and not Lingayats. Siddaganga Mutt is a Lingayat Mutt and professes principles of social reformer Basavanna.

Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy came to the rescue of minister SR Mahesh and defended his actions of lashing out at Tumakuru SP Divya Gopinath for stopping the minister from  entering through the VIP gate while paying last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji at the Siddaganga Mutt.

One of the devotees who visited the Siddaganga Mutt to pay his last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji was served food at the mutt. The man tried to throw the unfinished food, when a student returned the disposal plate to him and asked him to throw it after finishing the food
 

Shivakumara Swamiji, Siddaganga Mutt's pontiff, breathed his last at the age of 111 on January 21

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Siddaganga seer Shivakumara Swamiji breathed his last on January 21 at 11:40am in Siddaganga mutt. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

Siddaganga seer, Shivakumara Swamiji, breathed his last on January 21 at 11:40 am in the mutt in Tumakuru, Karnataka

Shivakumara Swamiji was 111 years old and was known as Walking God. He had recently undergone a surgery at Dr Rela Institute in Chennai in December 2018. His health started deteriorating a week ago and was being treated at Siddaganga Hospital in Tumakuru, Karnataka.

Heavy barricading has been put in place and the Tumakuru DC said that security arrangements have been made as VIPs are visiting the Siddaganga Mutt and hospital. He also said that the seer was fine and the public can visit him

Kumaraswamy addressed the media after visiting the Siddaganga Mutt seer and expressed his concerns towards the seer's current illness
 

After a successful liver bypass surgery, Shivakumara Swami is awaiting his return to the Mutt.