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Vatal seeks speedy disposal of disqualification petition

Bangalore: Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha leader Vatal Nagaraj has said that he will seek the intervention of the Karnataka High Court if there is further delay in the disposal of the application filed by him and two others seeking disqualification of 37 Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs.

Speaking to presspersons here on Sunday, Mr. Nagaraj said that Assembly Speaker Krishna was scheduled to hear the matter on November 17. He said that they would also file an affidavit in a day or two asking that former Janata Dal (Secular) leader and former Minister P.G.R. Sindhia be summoned for the hearing.

Mr. Nagaraj, G.V. Srirama Reddy (CPI-M), and S. Rajendran (RPI) had filed the petition last January seeking disqualification of 37 Janata Dal (Secular) MLAs, including the former Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy.

Later, they filed an application before Mr. Krishna for summoning senior Janata Dal (Secular) leader M.P. Prakash in connection with the petition. They submitted in their application that it was necessary to summon Mr. Prakash since he was the Janata Dal (Secular) Legislature Party leader in January last year when Mr. Kumaraswamy formed a government with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Speaking about delay in giving classical language status to Kannada, Mr. Nagaraj said that his party and other organisations would launch a sustained agitation to build pressure on the Centre. The first in the series of protests would be a road block at Mysore Bank Circle in Bangalore on November 14. This would be followed by a dharna in front of Raj Bhavan and protests in front of Central Government-run undertakings.

“If the Centre fails to accord classical language status to Kannada before December 10, I will sit on a dharna in front of the Prime Minister office,” said Mr. Nagaraj.

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