A Bengaluru tech founder plans to relocate his company to Pune due to language issues affecting non-Kannada staff. This follows a viral incident at SBI where a manager refused to speak Kannada, prompting backlash from local leaders.
A Bengaluru-based tech founder has decided to move his company’s office to Pune within six months. The reason: the ongoing “language nonsense.”
“If this language nonsense is to continue, I do not want my non-Kannada speaking staff to be the next ‘victim’,” entrepreneur Kaushik Mukherjee wrote on X.
He said the decision stemmed from concerns raised by his employees, adding he “agreed to their [point of view].”
This came after a recent incident at an SBI branch in Bengaluru’s Chandapura area, where a manager refused to speak in Kannada with a customer, saying, “This is India, I’ll speak Hindi, not Kannada.”
The video of the interaction went viral, drawing sharp criticism from Kannada activists and political leaders alike.
Kaushik Mukherjee’s post was in response to Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya, who earlier shared the video and called the manager’s conduct “not acceptable.”
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