Bengaluru sources have stated that voicing concern over attacks on state vehicles and a hotel run by a native of Karnataka in Tamil Nadu amid the ongoing Cauvery row, the State government today has asked its Tamil Nadu counterpart to take steps for the safety of Kannadigas living there and to protect their property.
The Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said he would write to Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to help maintain cordiality between the states, which are now locked in a bitter row over release of Cauvery water and also told that he would also speak to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, if necessary, on the incidents targeting Kannadigas.
He has appealed to people of both states not to resort to violence and has asked about a Tamil engineering student being beaten up allegedly by a group of people here for posting ‘derogatory’ remarks against some Kannada actors and against the Cauvery agitation, with a video capturing the incident going viral, he has said it was a “small incident“.
Meanwhile, Bangalore Tamil Sangam on Monday asked Siddaramaiah to direct the police to maintain law and order and provide security to all Tamils living in the state and has urged the media, especially visual, not to “incite” people of both the states by sensationalizing the news of violence and has urged the central government to intervene to solve the vexed problem.
