Bengaluru: Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa conferred this year’s Kannada Rajyotsava award, given by the Government of Karnataka, on 65 eminent personalities of the State at a ceremony held at Ravindra Kalakshetra in the State Capital yesterday.
Speaking on the occasion, Yediyurappa said that Kannada should be given the first priority in the State and the Government was committed for that. Quoting poet laureate Kuvempu who had said that no other language of the country has the richness of Kannada, he said that our land, literature, language, culture and traditions are very much part of our daily life. Pointing out that our homeland is like our mother, the CM said that Kannada language should get the same treatment and respect given to our mothers.
