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Plea to give Ekikarana Award to Bhalki Math

Staff Correspondent

`Sharana Kammata is being politicised'

Bidar: The Bharatiya Basava Balaga has demanded that the State Government include the Bhalki Hire Math among the list of persons and institutions selected for the Karnataka Ekikarana Award.

Math founder Sri Channabasava Pattaddevaru struggled hard for the unification of the State, it said. He started Kannada schools during the reign of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He fought against efforts to merge Bidar district to Andhra or Maharashtra. He organised rail roko agitations 50 years ago, when such agitations were unheard of.

He took steps to popularise Vachana literature. The State Government should rectify its mistake and add the math to the list, said Balaga president Babu Wali.

Mr. Wali criticised the organisers of the Sharana Kammata in Basavakalyan, who he said, had not invited the math's present seer Sri Basavalinga Pattaddevaru.

The math's first seer Sri Channabasava Pattaddevaru had built the Anubhav Mantap in Basavakalyan three decades ago, when no other religious institution took interest in the development of that historical city.

`Kammata politicised'

The Kammata was being politicised by some people. The Balaga would organise an agitation against this stance of the Kammata reception committee, Mr. Wali said in a release.

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