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CNC resolves to boycott Lok Sabha poll

Madikeri: Codava National Council (CNC) on Saturday passed a resolution at its “summer parliament session” at the Capitol Village resort near here to boycott of the coming Lok Sabha elections in protest against the “apathy” of the elected representatives and the Government to its demands.

Secretary-general of CNC N.U. Nachappa presided over the session.

CNC members were of the opinion that the elected representatives and the Government remained “callous and dishonest” to their demands, including creation of a “Kodava Autonomous Region” on the lines of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council comprising the erstwhile 45 “nads” (nad is a group of villages) in Kodagu.

The Government should provide ethno-linguistic tribal minority status to the Kodavas and extend the benefits of reservation in various fields, including education and politics, another resolution said.

Constitutional special guarantee to the land, language and culture of the Kodavas should be accorded. Establishing a Kodava university to perpetuate “Kodavalogy”, continuing exemption of licence to hold weapons without making it compulsory on the part of the Kodavas to deposit guns in police stations during elections, were the other resolutions.

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