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A time aft the Karnataka Border Area Development Authority delegation met Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to impulse him to cull the Malayalam Bhasha Bill 2025, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah connected Thursday (January 8, 2026) urged his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan to retreat the Bill to support the interests of Kannada-speaking linguistic minorities successful Kerala.
Terming the Bill arsenic an “attack connected the linguistic state protected successful the Constitution,” helium said: “We did not expect that the Communist authorities successful Kerala would crush the basal rights of linguistic minorities. Though administratively Kasaragod belongs to Kerala, it is emotionally connected with Karnataka.”
Commenting connected societal media level X, helium said that the Kerala authorities had each close to beforehand Malayalam, but it should not beryllium astatine the outgo of different language. He warned: “It is the work of our authorities to support the rights of Kannadigas. If the Kerala authorities tries to instrumentality the Bill, Kannadigas volition reason it it successful unison and volition basal successful unity to enactment Kannadigas of Kasaragod.”
The trigger for the Chief Minister’s connection is the transition of the Malayalam Bhasha Bill 2025 successful the Kerala legislature that seeks to marque Malayalam mandatory arsenic archetypal connection upto people 10 successful authorities and aided schools crossed Kerala. The delegation from the borderline country improvement authorization connected Wednesday had met the Kerala Governor and petitioned him to cull the Bill by highlighting its interaction connected Kannada-speaking linguistic minorities.
Fearing that Kannadigas successful Kerala, particularly successful Kasaragod, volition suffer opportunities to larn their parent lingua if the instrumentality was implemented, Mr. Siddaramaiah said: “Kannadigas successful Kasaragod are portion of Kannada civilization and lit and they are nary little than Kannadigas of Karnataka. Locals accidental that 70% of students similar to larn successful Kannada medium. Mother lingua to a linguistic number is not conscionable a connection but identity. Scientifically it has been proven that the learning is casual successful parent tongue. Imposing immoderate different connection volition not lone bring down learning outcomes, but volition besides effect successful the decease of the language.”
He pointed retired that Article 29 and Article 30 of the Constitution provides rights to support language, publication and culture, portion Article 350(A) provides close to learnt successful their parent lingua astatine the superior level and Article 350 ensures extortion to linguistic minorities.
“In the airy of law provisions, nary authorities should marque effort to crush the rights of linguistic minorities. Every national with a content successful unity successful diverseness has the state to larn successful parent tongue.”
