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Basavalinga Pattadevaru calls for united fight against Hindi imposition

Bidar Karnataka Kannada Basavanna
Nadoja Basavalinga Pattadevaru, the head of Bhalki Hiremath and president of the 21 Bidar District Kannada Sahithya Sammelana, being carried on a specially decorated chariot in the cultural procession organised as part of 21st Bidar District Kannada Sahithya Sammelan in Bidar on Saturday. (Source: GOPICHAND T.)

Nadoja Basavalinga Pattadevaru, the head of Bhalki Hiremath and president of the 21st Bidar District Kannada Sahithya Sammelana, called upon the people of Karnataka for an organised fight against what he called ‘the imposition of Hindi’ on Kannada.

Delivering his presidential address at the literary conference held at Channabasava Pattadevaru Rangmandir in Bidar on Saturday, the seer spoke in detail about the “attack of North on the South” and stressed on the need to develop national leaders in the southern states as a means of assertion.

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