Various pro-kannada organisations led by District Kannada Sahitya Parishat staged a protest demanding to provide justice for the Kannadigas in recruitment for North-West  Railway zone.
The organisations held a rally and also submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner to be forwarded to the Prime Minister.
The rally which started from Gandhi Vana passed through M G Road and culminated at Sub Division office.
They expressed their dissatisfaction over the injustice for Kannadigas while recruiting for ‘D’ group employees, saying that Dr Sarojini Mahishi report and other reports have been neglected.
District Kannada Sahitya Parishat President M S Ram Prasad, honourary secretary Subraya Sujeer, Kannada Sena artist Vishnu, taluk kannada sahitya parishat President Srivani Prahlada Rao, senior journalists K Prahlada Rao, Mohammad Younis, leader of minorities Mohammad Iqbal, Kumaravyasa Kannada Sangha’s Srinivas, Bhuvaneshwari Kannada Sangha’s Muniramaiah, Muraleedhar of Kannada Sena of KGF, M Shivalinga Moorthy, Balakrishna of KSRTC
Kannada Action Committee and others submitted a memorandum to the
district headquarters assistant N Babanna.