Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Thursday said the state government will take measures to build a memorial for popular Kannada novelist and philosopher S L Bhyrappa in Mysuru.

The chief minister, who paid his last respects to the mortal remains of Bhyrappa, while noting that the writer was a recipient of Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, Saraswati Samman, Sahitya Akademi awards, among other honours, felt that he should have got the "Jnanpith" award, the highest Indian literary award.

Bhyrappa died due to cardiac arrest at a private hospital here on Wednesday. He was 94.

"Won't do it because the BJP is saying. Let's build a memorial, I feel it will be better if it is at Mysuru. Our government will take measures to build a memorial in Mysuru, because he spent most of his

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