‘60 per cent Kannada rule’ Pro-Kannada activists arrest for protest over ‘English’ signboards

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Bengaluru police on Wednesday arrested individuals associated with Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a pro-Kannada activist group, while conducting a protest. As reported by ANI, the protest called for all businesses and establishments in the state to display nameplates in Kannada, by the government mandate stipulating that 60 per cent of the nameplates should be in the Kannada language. The demonstration to raise public awareness was organized under the guidance of T A Narayan Gowda, the State President of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike.

Also Read: Bengaluru: Protests over Kannada language rule intensify; activists create ruckus. Watch KRV State President T N Narayan Gowda said that people from various states are doing business in Bangalore. “But they don't put Kannada nameplates on their shops.

They are only putting up the nameplates of their shops in English. If they want to stay back in Bangalore then they have to put nameplates on their shops in Kannada or else they have to move from Karnataka to other states," he added. It has been reported that activists from Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) engaged in acts of vandalism, damaging shop boards displaying English nameplates.

Also Read: Let the market pick the language on signboards Additionally, members of the KRV broke flower pots outside the Mall of Asia in Bangalore, vandalized English signboards, and sprayed black ink as part of their protest. What is the ‘60 per cent Kannada rule’? Earlier, Tushar Giri Nath, the chief commissioner of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), has stated that commercial establishments within the administrative jurisdiction must install nameplates with 60 percent content in Kannada language by February 28. Failure to comply with this