Congress leader and MLC B.K. Hariprasad on Sunday said South India is 200 years ahead in all aspects of development when compared to North India.
Participating in a seminar on ‘Theocracy and Secular Democracy’, organised on the occasion of the release of V.D. Savarkar: Elu Mithyegalu, a translation of the work by Shamsul Islam by Tadagalale Surendra Rao, Mr. Hariprasad said “Compared to Gujarat, Maharashtra, we are 50 years ahead. Because, in South India, many social reformers, including Basaveshwara, Periyar, Phule, Ambedkar, Vemana, were engaged in bringing social reforms.”
“We are ahead because of their hard work. Even today there is a lack of infrastructure in the North. Minor girls are sexually assaulted in States like Madhya Pradesh,” he said.
