People of Karnataka angry over Amazon putting bikini having the colours of state’s flag

Bengaluru: Karnataka’s Kannada and culture minister Aravind Limbavali has said that the government would take legal action against Amazon as the users claimed that a bikini having colours of the Karnataka flag and emblem was available for sale on its Canada site.

This is the same as the rage against Google who’s search engine showed Kannada as India’s ugliest language.

Limbavali said, “We experienced an insult of Kannada by @Google recently. Even before the scars could heal, we find @amazonca using the colours of #Kannada flag and the Kannada icon on ladies clothes.”

On Saturday, he tweeted, “Multinational companies should stop much-repeated insult of #Kannada. This is a matter of Kannadigas’ self-pride and we will not tolerate the rise in such incidents. @amazonca should, therefore, apologise to Kannadigas. Legal action will be taken immediately against @amazonca.”

Last week, the minister had decided to take legal action against Google for showing such results against the Kannada language but later, dropped it as the tech giant had apologised to the people of Karnataka.

JD(S) leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy had termed it as an insult to the government and has asked the government to look into possibilities of taking an action against Amazon. It was necessary to stop such recurrences.

He demanded the Amazon should apologise to the Kannadigas.

The bikini had colours of the unofficial state’s flag which consists of shades of yellow and red and has the state’s emblem ‘Gandaberunda’, which is a two-headed mythological bird. It seems that now it has been removed by Amazon from its Canada site after the rage.