With this, all commercial establishments, industries, hospitals and institutions and organisations in the state are expected to have 60 per cent Kannada on the signboards and nameplates.
Pro-Kannada protestors in Bengaluru need to calm down. What works for a common denominator target audience is often what’s best. Businesses should get to take their own decisions.
The Kannadiga identity has always been heavily politicised, with each party claiming to be more pro-regional than the other. In the run up to the Karnataka assembly elections this May, the Congress and the BJP had used every topic to corner the other on perceived anti-regionalism, from state cooperative milk brand Nandini to lack of Kannada option in central armed police forces recruitment (CAPF) exams.