Anti-social elements using language as pretext for hooliganism: Hebbalkar

AFTER keeping quiet over the first few days on the assault by a group of Marathi-speaking people on a NWKRTC bus conductor for not speaking in Marathi, Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar on Monday condemned the attack.

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AFTER keeping quiet over the first few days on the assault by a group of Marathi-speaking people on a NWKRTC bus conductor for not speaking in Marathi, Women and Child Development Minister Laxmi Hebbalkar on Monday condemned the attack. Incidentally, the assault took place at Alekundri which falls in Hebbalkar's Belagavi Rural Assembly constituency.

"The assault on a North Western Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) conductor in Belagavi is highly condemnable. Those responsible for attacking a government employee must be punished," she said.