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im·mi·grant [im-i-gruhnt]
–noun
1. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence.

So isn’t immigrant the wrong term??

In all, if people of Bengaluru think that the government is not doing its job, they should vent their ire on them. Vote them out.. Why bother individuals who are just there to earn a decent living??

“But there are a few facts that cannot be ignored” => “these facts which support the kannadigaism cannot be ignored, but as you can see, I’ve ignored the rest of the facts”

bangalore is a ****ed up mess, because stuff like infrastructure, city planning etc. were totally ignored. People who owned land in bangalore (well, let’s just say it’s a coincidence that they are majorly kannadigas) built houses, split their houses, built shacks on the third and fourth floor etc to rent out and milk the software laborer out of even the last penny, without regard to congestion or population density, aesthetics, waste disposal etc. People who govern the city (ah, I’m again sorry if they are kannidigas too) did nothing to curb all kinds of illicit practices, nor did anything to improve city living conditions. But if you look at the IT employee, he’s done good ! He’s brought so much money into the state. He’s done what he’s supposed to do. So let’s be very clear on this.. the larger faction of people who didn’t do what they were supposed to do are the native bangaloreans.

Also, every day I used to say the pledge “India is my country”. Mark my words, the pledge wasn’t “Karnataka is my state” or “Bangalore is my city”.. In fact, the right to engage in productive employment in any part of India and the right to dwell in any part of India is a constitutionaly guaranteed fundamental right of all Indians. So the complete argument presented here is constitutionally unfounded. But alas, because our constitution is not conductive to our regional and religious discriminations we decided to disregard that book almost completely, right? And it did not help that it’s the lengthiest and most confusingly worded document ever.

Going by statistics, 70% of Indian population is engaged in agriculture, whereas, if we were to implement mechanised farming, the labor requirement in this sector is only 20% of the population. Therefore simply put, the only way to develop this country is to promote policies which will encourage the surplus laborers in agriculture to move on to other forms of employment, and undertake a rapid mechanization effort for agriculture. However, such policies are not conductive to vote banks and narrow-minded political views, but worse, policies of subsidising agriculture with hard earned money of taxpyers (most of these agricultural laborers are well below the 1 lakh mark and therefore don’t even pay taxes !) are encouraged in this country. Consequently, a rich man, who generates probably 25 times more income than one of these agricultural laborers would emmigrate from this country on the first opportunity (brain drain), a situation which when collectively happens, turns out to be disastrous to the nation as a whole.

And as a particular comment to the whole second paragraph of vivek’s.. If immigration across state boundaries is contained, tomorrow vivek will be ranting about people from Belagavi polluting the culture and stealing the employment of native bangaloreans.