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‘Fight for classical status to continue’

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‘It will be taken to its logical end’

Udupi: The President of Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, Chandrashekhar Patil, said on Saturday, that a resolution on seeking classical language status to Kannada language was not taken up at the 74th All India Kannada Sahitya Sammelan, as it had already been passed at the previous sammelan at Shimoga.

Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Patil said that the issue of classical status to Kannada would be fought to its logical conclusion.

When it was pointed out that resolutions on the Mahajan Commission Report implementation had also been passed in earlier sammelans and yet a resolution on the same issue was passed at the 74th sammelan, Mr. Patil said that Mahajan Commission was a legal issue and was in the Supreme Court.

Hence it had to be pursued, he said. Earlier, the President of the Dakshina Kannada District Kannada Sahitya Parishat,

Disappointment

Pradeep Kumar Kalkura, told presspersons that some presidents of the district units of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat had expressed their disappointment at the non-inclusion of the resolution on classical status for Kannada language at the sammelan.

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