Bengaluru: Irked members of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) once more embarked on defacing Hindi signages across several metro stations in Bengaluru last night after the BMRCL did not meet their deadline of having these boards removed by Wednesday.
The protestors blackened words written in Hindi on the signboard outside Jaynagar, Peenya, Deepanjali Nagar, Mysore Road, and Yashwanthpura metro stations. However they met with resistance from security personnel deployed at M G Road metro who stopped them and handed them over to the police.
After the anti-Hindi Twitter campaign, #NammaMetroHindiBeda (‘Our Metro, We don’t want Hindi’) gathered momentum pro-Kannada activists in Karnataka earlier.
After the anti-Hindi Twitter campaign, #NammaMetroHindiBeda (‘Our Metro, We don’t want Hindi’), Hindi signs in many stations were covered with paper and taped on July 3. On July 6 too, the KRV defaced English and Hindi signage of a restaurant in a mall near Bengaluru’s Eco tech park.
Meanwhile several language activists from political parties like the MNS and DMK have voiced their support against the imposition of Hindi in their states with DMK acting president MK Stalin even threatening to begin an anti-Hindi agitation after milestones marked in Hindi were seen on Tamil Nadu highways.
With Chief Minister Siddaramaiah too favoring a bilingual policy and asking officials to check the policy followed in non-Hindi states like Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, and others the anti Hindi movement is just gathering further momentum.
