With Lok Sabha polls around the corner, pro-Kannada activists will be holding a live discussion with the CM on the issue that has mobilised the Congress and its allies regimes in South India around a common cause against the BJP.
The dissatisfaction among KRV activists was fuelled by a recent directive from the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), which mandated that all commercial signboards must contain at least 60 per cent Kannada content.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is set to introduce an ordinance requiring signboards in the state to display information in Kannada. He condemned recent vandalism by pro-Kannada activists and emphasised the importance of peaceful protests.
Members of the KRV vandalized English signboards and protested for the mandatory use of the Kannada language on nameplates of commercial establishments in Bangalore.
Karnataka Rakshana Vedika president TN Narayan Gowda said his organisation organised an "awareness protest" rally about the 60% Kannada on signboard rule which is a government law., Explainers News, Times Now