Job Discrimination Against Kannada Speakers

But

They say they won't give you a job if Kannada is your mother tongue.

A young woman made a video about this.

She says,

they won't give you a job if Kannada is your mother tongue.

She had written Kannada as her mother tongue in her résumé, so they rejected her.

They give more opportunities to people from other states.

If this is perhaps true, then definitely

action must be taken against such companies. Without any leniency.

Recently, if Kannada is listed as your mother tongue on your résumé, they reject you in interviews,

many people have been making and posting videos saying.

It isn't one hundred percent, it is two hundred percent true.

In a company with one hundred employees, there are only three or four

Kannadigas.

And they conduct campus drives, right? It may be in Karnataka,

but no one goes to Bengaluru colleges to conduct them.

They go to different states and conduct interviews.

Then they bring people from there.

What do they bring from there, very talented people? No, just pass students.

They don't even know English, but they come for a low salary, that's the only

one

reason they bring them here and try.

If one person comes from there, he brings his entire family here

and fills the place with them.

If there's one team lead, he fills it with an entire community.

And it's becoming serious for our people.

They're rejecting people just because they're Kannada.

Even the labour departments know about this information.

But even they can't do anything. That's the truth.

But now, I have only one question for our honourable CM.

DK sir comes, creates Bidadi Township, and employment

You want to create more opportunities for our people, right, sir? In this situation…

Whatever you do there, it won't work. Please give us a solution for this.

I'm requesting you, please.

And everyone, please come and talk about this.

Recently, in your resume…

This is what this girl said. If this is true…

We should hang our heads in shame.

We should be ashamed.

There is no doubt about it.

Where are we Kannadigas? What are we doing?

What qualifications do we have?

What qualifications do we have?

A problem Tamils don't have, a problem Telugus and Malayalis don't have

is one we have in Karnataka, in Bengaluru.

Is there anything more wretched than this?

To set up companies here, you need our land.

You need our water to drink here. You need our air.

You need our debt.

You're not even fit to provide jobs. People like this should be kicked out.

Listen to what I'm saying, if governments have any real courage,

if they have that courageous spirit,

they must take action against them without hesitation. Without hesitation, I say.

Instead of just giving them all the farmers' land over and over,

giving and giving to create huge,

huge companies, you aren't here just to have a good time.

If Kannadigas have no jobs in Karnataka, what does it mean that this girl is acting

like this?

It means you should be ashamed.

Who the hell is the ITBT minister? Please, look into this.

See what's happening.

Shame.

This is disgraceful.

What are the pro-Kannada organizations doing?

I'm asking you.

Whenever the subject comes up, you say protest, what are you doing?

Leave that aside, at least, you know, because organizations like Karave exist,

at least some,

something still remains.

We had our own identity. Otherwise, it would have fallen

apart.

Please welcome Praveen Shetty, who is here to speak with us.

Mr. Praveen Shetty, I hope you can hear me.

What is this, sir?

What's going on, Mr. Praveen Shetty?

Hello, hello, sir.

Hello, go ahead, sir.

Karnataka's politicians have no Kannada

self-respect at all. Our governments are living as slaves

to others. When they need to acquire land from farmers

here, they make agreements, promising jobs to the sons of this soil.

Electricity, water, we have directly given them plots

for ITBT companies.

Yet these HR people come from different states,

our HR people should be locals. Those who come from other states

deny jobs to the children of this land, and commit injustice. Who can

tolerate this? Those women are speaking out courageously.

This may have been going on for years. This child, some girls...

are boldly coming forward and speaking out. We can never stop this.

Against this, the government's ITBT ministers today, the government is involved in such

issues other than Kannadigas' employment problems, livelihood problems, or farmers' livelihood

problems, constantly involved in other work, in CDs and such matters.

As for the ITBT minister, this government,

we don't even know what it is doing today. That's the kind of state they're in.

Priyanka Kharge should be the IT minister.

Instead, they are doing the work of talking about all sorts of other things.

Therefore, if Kannada activists immediately approach the ITBT department,

they'll say that because of us, they got up and left Karnataka,

and place that blame on us.

If a stone is thrown, they suddenly make our Kannada activists out to be heroes.

Now the ITBT department must look into this.

Someone needs to look into HR. Different people keep coming.

They keep coming without hesitation.

Where have they drawn the line?

Mr. Shetty, at least, at least, at least after all this, you should go

and meet the concerned people. You need to put some pressure on them

over this, Mr. Shetty.

Otherwise, it won't work.

We will definitely do it. If Kannadigas face injustice at any,

at any level,

Karnataka Rakshana is ready for a struggle.

We are warning the government.

Kannadigas face employment problems, we face livelihood problems.

We demand that the honorable Chief Minister immediately take note of this.

We are making this demand. Otherwise, wherever injustice occurs,

until we take up the begging bowl,

anything can happen. We'll raise slogans, we'll raise stones,

as Kuvempu said, anything can happen at any time.

I'm issuing a warning that says, "We'll stop."

Okay, thank you for speaking with us, Praveen

Shettar. So this is the situation.

Look, this is our fate. On one side, there is no rain, no crops, and farmers

are dying.

They're afraid farmers will commit suicide one after another

everywhere.

It's a very, very bad situation. You, you should call someone, some

friends living in the villages, and tell them the same thing.

Sir, our crops are in this state and that state. We're in this situation.

On one side, there is no food in the villages.

On the other side, our children have no jobs in the cities.

Others need our soil to live. Our children are left with dirt in their mouths.

All these companies need our water for their own needs.

For our children, their future is left for dead.

Will anyone competent do anything?

If the system just sits there with its eyes closed,

If we get complacent,

Even God can't come to save us at all. Understand that.