Sat Mar 08 16:44:59 UTC 2025: ## Bengaluru University Symposium Celebrates D. Devaraj Urs’ Legacy

**Bengaluru, March 8, 2025** – Bengaluru City University (BCU) held a symposium this week honoring the late D. Devaraj Urs, a former Karnataka Chief Minister, and his contributions to social justice and development. The event, organized in collaboration with the university’s Other Backward Classes and Minority Cell, focused on Urs’s transformative impact on the state.

Speakers highlighted Urs’s pivotal role in empowering marginalized communities through landmark land reforms and initiatives aimed at uplifting backward classes. Writer and critic Banjagere Jayapraksh emphasized these achievements, noting their significance despite the challenges of the Emergency era. IAS Officer Ravi D. Channannavar specifically acknowledged Urs’s role in renaming the state “Karnataka” and establishing Kannada as the administrative language.

BCU Vice Chancellor Lingaraja Gandhi presided over the symposium, emphasizing the importance of celebrating Urs’s lasting legacy on Karnataka’s governance and social reforms. The symposium served as a platform to recognize and further discuss the significant contributions of this influential leader.

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