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We will move Supreme Court: Yeddyurappa

GULBARGA: The State Government has continued its defiant stand on the issue of implementing the order of a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court on the language policy.

Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa told presspersons here on Sunday that there was no change in the Government’s stand that Kannada should have primacy in school education. “We will move the Supreme Court seeking stay on the implementation of the orders passed by the Division Bench,” he said.

The Chief Minister was here to participate in the first anniversary function of the Karnataka High Court Circuit Bench.

Admitting that there had been a delay by the State Government in responding to the orders of the Division Bench last year, Mr. Yeddyurappa said he had discussed the implications of the observations of the High Court with the Primary and Secondary Education Minister Vishveshwar Hegde Kageri and Advocate-General Ashok Harnahalli.

“Soon after my return to Bangalore, I will again talk to Mr. Kageri and Mr. Harnahalli, and senior officials and chalk out the next course of action,” Mr. Yeddyurappa said. The Government had already challenged the Division Bench order in the Supreme Court and it was yet to be disposed of, he added.

The Chief Minister reiterated that injustice had been meted out to Karnataka in the Railway Budget, and regretted that his request to Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee for including the long-pending projects in the proposals had not been conceded.

Referring to the alleged assault of an Assistant Executive Engineer of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike by Housing and Muzrai Minister V. Somanna, the Chief Minister said he had talked to several officials in Bangalore and was told that the Minister had only pulled up the official and not assaulted him as reported in the media.

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