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Classical tag to Kannada in two months: Moily

UDUPI: Exuding confidence in the Union Government’s concern for the State and its issues, Chairman of the Central Administrative Reforms Commission and former Chief Minister M. Veerappa Moily has said that Kannada will get classical status in two months.

Speaking at a seminar on various topics of the State here on Thursday, at the 74th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, Mr. Moily said that the Centre should have accorded classical tag to the Kannada language by this time. The issue was not political. It was a question of right of the State. The Centre had been awaiting the report of the expert committee for taking the final decision, he added. Reacting sharply in dissent to Mr. Moily’s observations, a section of over 5,000 audience sought clarification about what effective role he had played in convincing the Centre over the issue.

Mr. Moily responded that the issue could not be solved through emotional speeches. It should be addressed only though diplomacy. Differing approaches from various quarters had blocked the promotion of Kannada on a par with Tamil over the issue. Only a unified approach by all could ensure and a clean passage for the issue, he said.

The State did not adopt any resolution to seek classical status for Kannada when it held the Vishwa Kannada Sammelan in 1989. On the contrary, Tamil Nadu Government, then headed by the late M.G. Ramachandran, adopted a resolution to that effect at the World Tamil convention held in 1998, he explained. Development of Kannada should be viewed from a broad perspective. The Kannada Sahitya Parishat should realise the need of inviting the major players of other fields such as the honorary chairman of the Infosys N.R. Narayana Murthy to the sammelans. It should treat all those who had been availing themselves of benefits from the State as Kannadigas.

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