Kannada activists continue protest

Kannada activists continue protest
Thursday April 3 2008 12:34 IST

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BANGALORE: Members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike on Wednesday blackened the signboard in front of a Tamil newspaper office despite police presence.

About 60 KRV activists gathered at the newspaper office at Rajajinagar and blackened a part of the signboard that was in Tamil.

They also raised anti-Karunanidhi slogans but did not cause any physical damage to the reporters or to the office. Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists also took out a torchlight procession from the Corporation to Raj Bhavan in retaliation to violence against Kannadigas in Tamil Nadu and submitted a memorandum to the Governor.

Speaking to this website's newspaper, KRV president Narayana Gowda said: "We have requested the Governor to prevail upon the Centre to advice the Tamil Nadu government against the Hogenakkal project."

Further, he said that the actions of activists at TN who apparently ransacked the Kannada Sangha office and hotels owned by Kannadigas in Chennai would lead to unrest in Karnataka.

Pro-Kannada organisations also went on a spree blackening hoardings in Tamil and blackening Tamil Nadu state buses and also wrote anti-Karunanidhi slogans on them.

Also, Naranyana Gowda's faction is yet undecided on extending support to the Karnataka bandh called by the Karnataka Gadi Horata Samiti. Gowda's KRV will be meeting on Thursday to take a call on the bandh.