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Parishat to go ahead with Kannada meet

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Parishat defends inviting politicians to the sammelan
‘Sauharda sammelan has nothing to do with the event’

BANGALORE: The 74th four-day Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan will be held from December 12 to 15 at Udupi as scheduled even if the release of Rs. 1 crore fund from the Government is delayed, president of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat Chandrashekhara Patil has said.

Prof. Patil told presspersons here on Friday that the parishat was hopeful of getting the funds released shortly as it had submitted the accounts pertaining to the 73rd sammelan held at Shimoga in December 2006 in compliance with the rules. However, the parishat had decided to go ahead with its schedule without waiting for the release of funds, he added.

Defending the parishat’s stand on inviting politicians to the sammelan, he said that Udupi sammelan would be totally contrary to what had happened in the Shimoga sammelan.

The organisers of the Udupi sammelan were hopeful that cultural events would be free from any unsavoury incidents like the ones that occurred in the previous convention, he said.

Asked about the impact of Sauharada Sahitya Sammelan to be held at Udupi on December 9, Prof. Patil said that the Sauharda Sahitya Sammelan had been organised by a group of progressive thinkers and it had nothing to do with the annual mega event of the parishat. It was wrong to construe that the Sauharda Sahitya Sammalen was a parallel literary event. It was a separate event to discuss various issues with different perspectives. He would also participate in it, he said.

Schedule

Releasing the invitation of the event, Prof. Patil said that writer L.S. Seshagiri Rao, who has been selected to chair the sammelan, would be taken to the venue of the event in a grand procession on December 12. Later in the noon, the Dharmadhikari of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala D. Veerendra Heggade would inaugurate the sammelan. Union Minister for Labour Oscar Fernandes, the former Minister V.S. Acharya, Secretary in the Kannada and Culture Department I.M. Vittalamurthy, Director of Kannada and Culture Manu Baligar and others would participate in the inaugural session.

Cultural fetes and public felicitation to over 75 persons, including the former Ministers Basavaraja Horatti and Iqbal Ansari, would mark the inaugural day.

Special lectures, seminars on various issues of the State, poets’ meet, symposium on various forms of Kannada literature and language, discussion on social movements on Kannada, challenges before the State on the linguistic front, mass media, language and computer technology and cultural entertainments would be held at two separate venues on all the four days.

Union Minister of State for Planning M.V. Rajasekharan, the former Chief Ministers N. Dharam Singh, H. D. Kumaraswamy and B.S. Yeddyurappa and the former Deputy Chief Ministers Siddaramaiah and M.P. Prakash and Gurupadappa Nagamarapalli would participate in the valedictory function.

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