Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government has hinted at initiating authorized motion towards Amazon after customers claimed {that a} bikini having colors of the state flag and emblem was out there on the market on the e-commerce big’s Canada web site.
Asserting that the federal government wouldn’t tolerate such issues, Karnataka Kannada and Culture Minister Aravind Limbavali known as it a matter of Kannadigas’ self-pride and demanded an apology from Amazon Canada.
“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,” Limbavali tweeted.
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Former chief minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief H D Kumaraswamy on his half dubbed it to be an insult and demanded that Amazon ought to apologise to Kannadigas.
Asking the state authorities to look into potentialities of taking motion towards Amazon, Kumaraswamy stated that it was essential to cease the recurrence of such issues in future.
Amazon has, nonetheless, following uproar eliminated the bikini, which had the colors of unofficial state’s flag, in hues of yellow and pink, and has the state’s emblem ‘Gandaberunda’, a two-headed mythological chook, from its Canada web site, PTI reported.
There was no fast response from Amazon on the identical.
