Mangalore, December 12: Artist turned politician Umanath A Kotyan on Monday formally took charge as the new president of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy.
Interestingly, Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, one of the most powerful RSS leaders of South India, was present among others in the ceremony held at Academy office in the city.
The Karnataka State government had last week appointed him to succeed Palthady Ramakrishna Achar, whose term as the president of the prestigious Academy had ended on October 10.
Speaking after assuming the new office, Mr Kotyan promised to take forward the agenda for Tulu that his predecessor laid down.
The agenda includes taking work of Tulu Bhavan to its logical end and strengthening the cause of teaching Tulu as an optional subjects in schools in Karnataka.
A full-fledged team of 10-members too formally assumed the office along with the president. The members include Jagannath Shetty Bala, Padmanabh S Bhat, Thukaram Poojary, Prabhakar Shetty, Kadri Navaneeth Shetty, BV Suryanarayana, Ramesh Kalmadi, Yadava Karkera, Manjula Shetty, and Durgakumar Nayarkere.
Basically a state artist, Umanath is an amateur actor, director and story writer and has dabbled in this field for the last two decades. He is also the vice-president of Dakshina Kannada district unit of Bharatiya Janata Party.
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