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,40);width:600px;outline:0px">Recently, coordination committee chairman and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had taken exception to the decision and said that he would have a discussion with Mr. Kumaraswamy.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">He had tweeted stating that he had studied in the Kannada medium till high school and asked if he was “dim-witted” for studying in his mother tongue. He was of the opinion that Kannada should remain the “sovereign language in Karnataka”.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">Meanwhile, several Dalit organisations have come out in support of Mr. Kumaraswamy. Mavalli Shankar, State convener of Dalit Sangharsha Samiti (Ambedkarvada), on Monday, told <em style="box-sizing:border-box;outline:0px">The Hindu</em> that his organisation had been in favour of teaching English in government schools.</p><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:18px 30px 10px;padding:0px;font-family:Fira-Sans-SemiBold,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:25px;color:rgb(19,59,90);width:600px;font-weight:normal;outline:0px">‘Dying gradually’</h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">“Government schools are dying gradually. Only children of poor Dalits and backward classes are going to government schools with no financial support to afford private schools. These children cannot compete with those in private schools. Why should students of government schools alone should take the responsibility of safeguarding Kannada?,” he asked</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">The Dalit leaders have also resolved to protest against those who oppose English medium in government schools.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">Krishnadas, Hassan district convener of DSS, wanted to know where the children and grandchildren of noted Kannada writers had been studying?</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">“We are opposing the hypocrisy of certain writers who advocate Kannada medium, but send their children to private schools, where they study in the English medium,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:TundraWeb,serif;margin:0px 30px 10px;padding:5px 0px 10px;font-size:18px;line-height:26px;color:rgb(40,40,40);width:600px;outline:0px">In fact the leaders have demanded that the government should set up a model school in each gram panchayat</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div></div>