Mangalore: KRV Calls for Arrest of Bal Thackeray over Border Dispute
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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (TU/CN)
Mangalore, Jan 24: Praveen Kumar Shetty, president, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, on Saturday January 24 urged the government to arrest Shiva Sena chief Bal Thackeray and the activists of Maharastra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) following the recent clash on the Karnataka and Maharashtra border issue.
Addressing media persons at the Balabhavana , he alleged that activists of MES are resorting to goondaism against Kannadigas in the Marathi-dominated border districts of the state. Bal Thackeray has been supporting perpetration of violence in that region, said Praveen Shetty.
“Struggle in the name of language should be honest. Damaging any property belonging to either of the states cannot be called a ‘movement’. We fight for Kannada language through non-violence”, he said.
Saying that the Vedike would undertake a movement to merge Kasargod district with the state, he urged the government to employ Kannadigas in railway stations and airports and to provide hundred per cent reservation in shopping establishments of the same.
Praveen Shetty added that the government should allow the hoisting of a state flag in municipality buildings in the state.
State organizing secretary Santhosh Kumar Shetty said that the Vedike would fight to employ all Kannadiga personnel in the Nandikoor Thermal Power Project. In reply to a question, he said that the plant cannot be stopped. Therefore, KRV is left with only the option of fighting to fill all vacancies in the company with Kannadigas.
Earlier, the activists of the Vedike burnt an effigy of Bal Thackeray in front of the DC office. They also submitted a memorandum to the chief minister through district commissioner V Ponnuraj demanding a full-fledged passport office and day train service between Mangalore and Bangalore.
Prasanna, Rajesh Kundar, George, and Annaiah Kulal, were present at the press meet.