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Promise to get Mahajan panel report implemented

By Our Staff Reporter

KASARAGOD, MAY 1. "I will do my level best to get the Mahajan Commission report implemented," the NDA candidate, V. Balakrishna Shetty, has asserted. He said this while speaking at a face-to-face programme with the candidates organised by the Karnataka Samiti at the City Towers here today.

The president of the district unit of the BJP, Mr. Shetty himself is a Kannada-speaking person belonging to the linguistic minority. According to the Mahajan Commission report, the north of the Kasaragod district to the north of the Chandragiri river to be exact was to be merged with the Karnataka State. Though this has been a long-standing demand by the Kannada-speaking people of the district, a decision on this regard is yet taken.

The people of the samiti had recently approached the Karnataka Government to put pressure to raise the issue and get the Mahajan Commission report implemented by the Central Government.

The LDF candidate, P.Karunakaran did not turn up for the programme that lasted for about an hour.

Both the UDF candidate, N.A. Muhammed, and the BJP nominee Mr. Shetty assured the Kannada-speaking gathering that they would do their best to redress their grievances.

The UDF candidate Mr. Muhammed went a step further to assure the gathering that he would pressure the State and the Central Government to resolve the present-day grievances of the Kannada-speaking linguistic minority in the district.

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