Mysore/Mysuru: Chamaraja MLA L. Nagendra conferred ‘Mysuru Kannada Ratna’ Awards on 27 achievers from different fields at a programme organised jointly by Pragathi Pratishtana and Mysuru Kannada Vedike at Rotary Hall on JLB Road here on Sunday.
Speaking on the occasion, Nagendra said that Mysuru has its own identity and pride amongst the comity of cities around the world. Pointing out that the State was called as Mysore State until the 1970s when the then Chief Minister D. Devaraj Urs renamed it as Karnataka State, he said that Kannada was now under threat in the Capital City of Bengaluru.
