Bengaluru, Oct 6: The 13th annual special issue of Vartha Bharati Kannada daily was released on Monday by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, at his office ‘Krishna’ in Bengaluru.
Speaking on the occasion Mr Siddaramaiah said: “Vartha Bharati is doing a commendable job by reaching out to the people not only in Karnataka but those living in various countries across the globe with the fragrance of Kannada language and culture.”
KC Ramesh and Mangala received the first copy of the special issue from the CM on behalf of the readers of daily.
R Roshan Baig, Minister for Information, Haj and Infrastructure, Dr L Hanumanthayya, Chairman of Kannada Development Authority were the chief guests.
Mr Baig said that Vartha Bharati has proved that Minorities are also capable of successfully running a strictly principled and objective Kannada daily newspaper maintaining very high standards.
BA Moidin, former minister, Esthar Ananthamurthy, the widow of late UR Ananthamurthy, Dinesh Amin Mattu, media advisor to the CM, NR Vishu Kumar, Director of Information and PR Dept, SG Siddaramaiah, a Kannada writer, Mavalli Shankar and Lakshmi Narayan Nagwar, Dalit Leaders, Syed Mohammed Beary , Chairman of Bearys Group, HM Afroze Assadi, Director of Madhyama Communications Ltd., DP Muralidhar, Press Secretary to CM, Abdussalam Puthige, chief editor, Basavaraj, Bangalore Bureau Chief, Prakash C, reporter were present.
The annual special issue features exclusive articles, interviews, photo features from writers, thinkers and achievers of national and international repute.
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