Bangaluru: Kannada Okkuta leader Vatal Nagraj demanded the union government to provide financial assistance up to Rs 1 Lakh to lovers to assist their weddings. And to express his solidarity with lovers on Valentine’s Day Vatal arranged for the “wedding of sheep” in Bengaluru. Speaking to the reporters on Wednesday Vatal said that Love is […]

Bangaluru: Vatal Nagaraj has called for a Bengaluru Bandh on February 4. Vatal Nagaraj from Kannada Okkuta today said that until the BJP resolve the Mahadayi issue, they Okkuta members will fight. Addressing the media, he said if the BJP leaders don’t give any assurance on the Mahadayi issue by February 3 then the Okkuta […]

Bangaluru: A 12 hours dawn to dusk bandh has been called on 25th January by Vatal Nagaraj and other Pro-Kannada outfits demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi to resolve the Mahadayi river water sharing dispute between Karnataka and Goa. The bandh has got an effect with the state’s capital completely shut down today. Speaking to the […]

Bangaluru: A bandh for a bandh appears to be the latest strategy in tit-for-tat politics. BJP has threatened to call a “counter-bandh” between February 10 and 12 when Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be in Karnataka, in retaliation to what it sees as a Congress move to call a bandh over the Mahadayi dispute on […]

Mangaluru : Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha leader Vatal Nagaraj on Thursday ‘regretted’ his statement that the people in Dakshina Kannada had no humanity and said that he believed in oneness of Kannadigas. Mr. Nagaraj, who was here to address a media conference, was confronted by presspersons who sought a clarification on his statement made during […]

Bangalore: Kannada Okkoota, an umbrella body of various Kannada organisations, is all set to make the bandh call given on January 27, opposing dubbing of films and teleserials into Kannada, a success. A meeting of the Kannada Okkoota was convened here on Tuesday to discuss the bandh where it was unanimously resolved to stall dubbing, […]

Bangalore: In a press conference called at kolar on Tuesday, General Secretary Jayadeva Prasanna of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike(K.R.V.) informed reporters that the Forum which fought for Kannada and borderlands protection in Karnataka, has removed T.A. Narayana Gowda from the position of President with immediate effect. This has led to dissentions within the militant organization, which […]

Bangalore: Vatal Nagaraj, a former MLA under R. Gundu Rao rule, is an uncommon politician in Karnataka. He fights for Kannada and teases leaders who go wrong socially or politically. He brings animals like assets to his demonstration, and wears a police uniform to joke at high-handedness. But on Friday, he had people in splits, […]

Kasaragod: In a Border Karnataka  Area Conference held in Kasaragod on Saturday last, Aug.7, Vatal Nagaraj, past president of Border state studies commission and leaders of Vatal Kannada Movement Party, complained at large that no govt. in Karnataka ever came forward to struggle for the merger of Kasaragod region (from Ullal downwards) with Karnataka since […]