The Hindu : Punaroor's resignation sought

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Thursday, Mar 06, 2003

Southern States

Southern States - Karnataka

Punaroor's resignation sought

By Our Special Correspondent

GULBARGA March 5 . The Udayonmukha Yuva Barahagarara Balaga on Wednesday sought the resignation of the President of the Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Harikrishna Punaroor, and the President of the Gulbarga District Kannada Sahitya Parishat, Apparao Akkoni, for their "failure" to provide adequate representation to Kannada writers and poets from Hyderabad Karnataka region in various sessions of the 70th All-India Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, to be held in Belgaum from Friday.

The President of the balaga, Veerabhadra Simpi, criticised the parishat for not including the names of young writers and poets of the region as participants in different sessions of the sammelan.

According to him, Mr. Punaroor had said during the election campaign that there was an urgent need for the recognition of young writers of Hyderabad Karnataka region in the literary activities of the parishat, and promised to undo the mistakes committed in the past.

Mr. Simpi pointed out that except for two poets and two speakers from Gulbarga District, no other writer from Hyderabad-Karnatak region, including Raichur, Koppal, and Bidar, had been included in the sessions at the sammelan. Artistes of the region had been ignored in the cultural programmes organised as part of the sammelan, he added.

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