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Tamil movies to be banned in Karnataka

To protest against Tamil Nadu, the Kannada Rakshana Vedike, a pro-Kannada organisation will be prevent Tamil movies from being screened.

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A pro-Kannada organisation will prevent screening of Tamil movies to protest TN project

BANGALORE: To protest against Tamil Nadu going ahead with Hogenakal project on Karnataka border, the Kannada Rakshana Vedike (KRV), a pro-Kannada organisation will be prevent Tamil movies from being screened in theatres and television channels from today.

In a conference held on Tuesday evening, the state president of KRV, which is a prominent organisation in Karnataka, TA Narayangowda made the announcement. The KRV activists had stopped screening of Tamil movies in eight theatres in Bangalore on Monday. “This is to protest Tamil Nadu’s decision to go ahead with the dam project. We will wait and watch till April 11 and call for a state-wide bandh next week,” he said. Tamil Nadu government unanimously decided in the assembly on Tuesday to start the project in mid-April.

The chief secretary of the state Sudhakar Rao had written to the Tamil Nadu government to stop the work related to Hogenakal project on February 28. In a reply to the letter, Tamil Nadu government said that it would go ahead with the Rs1,334 crore project envisaged to supply 160 million litres everyday to over 40 lakh people in the dry districts of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri. “Karnataka had agreed to the execution of the Hogenakal combined water supply scheme in as early as 1998,” the Tamil Nadu chief secretary LK Tripathy said in the letter dated March 8. Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi has sought prime minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention in the matter.

Meanwhile, Bangalore police have beefed up security to Karunanidhi’s daughter Selvi in the wake of violent protests by pro-Kannada groups over his remarks on the Hogenakkal water project. “Security has been strengthened at Karunanidhi daughter’s residence keeping in mind the anti-Tamil atmosphere in Bangalore,” said the Bangalore police commissioner N Achuta Rao.

k_bhargavi@dnaindia.net

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