The Bengaluru police have arrested 41 members of the pro-Kannada organisation, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), for allegedly slipping into the Taj West End Hotel in the city in the guise of customers to stage a protest and disrupt a meeting of central government officials on the promotion of Hindi as the official language.

KRV activists Thursday entered the meeting of 33 central government departments, organised by the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language, and raised slogans, disrupting the meeting.

“Between approximately 10.45 am and 11 am, 30 to 40 members of an organisation illegally entered the venue in protest against the meeting agenda, obstructed the work of government officials present, and created a disturbance. This caused a temporary disruption to the meeting,” the B

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