"Platinum Jubilee" Sammelana at Chitradurga next year

Udupi, Dec 14(UNI) The "Platinum Jubilee" Akhila Bharatha Sahitya Sammelan will be held in Chitradurga next year.

The Kannada Sahitya Parishat Executive Committee which met here last night took a decision to this effect.

Parishat President Chandrashekar told newsmen that though there was keen fight between Bellary and Chitradurga to host the event, the Committee, through secret ballot, selected Chitradurga as the venue.

He said that it was also decided to hold the next Sammelana at Chitradurga by October 2008.

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