Tejasvi Surya, Sonu Nigam in online spat over Kannada language row

MP Tejasvi Surya and singer Sonu Nigam are in an online spat over a viral video of an SBI employee refusing to speak Kannada.

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00:00MP Tejasvi Surya and Sonu Nigam engaged in an online spat over this video of an SBI bank

00:08employee refusing to speak Kannada and Karnataka. Sharing the viral clip, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya took

00:13two ex calling the manager's refusal to speak Kannada simply not acceptable and asserting

00:18that customer service staff in Karnataka must know the state's official language. In a post

00:22tagging Surya, Nigam wrote, don't up Kannada movies in Hindi. Do you have the guts to say

00:26this to Kannada film stars Mr. Tejasvi Surya or are you just another language warrior?

00:30Nigam further wrote, Kannada should be made mandatory in software companies.

00:34If American clients want to work on projects in Karnataka, they should also speak Kannada.

00:38Recently, in April, Nigam faced controversy after linking a fan's aggressive demand for a Kannada

00:43song to the Pehelgaam terror attack during a concert. An FIR was filed but the Karnataka

00:48High Court granted him relief, ordering no immediate action be taken.