Vatal Nagaraj
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Vatal Madappa Nagaraj (born c.1936) is an Indian politician who was the Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from Chamarajnagar. He is the founder and president of the Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha.{{cite web|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/sep/290909-vatal-nagaraj-activist-movie.htm|title=Vatal's life to be an open book|access-date=3 September 2016}}{{cite news|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108013653/http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/12/stories/2006091213340400.htm|archive-date=8 November 2012|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article3074287.ece|title=Vatal Nagaraj calls for bandh on October 4|date=12 September 2006|access-date=3 September 2016|newspaper=The Hindu}}{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607084504/http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/15/stories/2011021550450200.htm|archive-date=7 June 2014|url=http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/15/stories/2011021550450200.htm|title=Vatal Nagaraj plays cupid on a chariot|url-status=dead|work=The Hindu|date=2011-02-15|access-date=3 September 2016}}
In 1964 he led a two-month agitation demanding the destruction of a 150-year-old British Raj era cenotaph pillar marking the deaths of soldiers at the Siege of Bangalore in 1791. In October of that year the cenotaph was dismantled by the Bangalore City Corporation and a statue of Kempe Gowda now stands in its place.{{cite web|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/Reclaiming-the-city/articleshow/25010522.cms|title=Renaming the City|website=Bangalore Mirror}}
Nagaraj served in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly until being defeated by C Guru Swamy in 2004.
He protested in 2017 against the comments of a famous South Indian actor Sathyaraj during the Cauvery Protest by Tamil Nadu Actors Association against Karnataka.{{Cite web|url=http://www.news18.com/news/movies/kannada-group-holds-protest-against-baahubali-actor-sathyaraj-1379037.html|title=Kannada Group Holds Protest Against Baahubali Actor Sathyaraj|date=20 April 2017}}Final Sathyaraj Apologises For His Anti-Kannada Remarks Over Cauvery Issue From 9 Years Ago http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/04/21/baahubali-sathyaraj-apologises-for-anti-kannada-remarks_a_22049097/ The protest was called off later. In 2018 he started a new agitation on January 25 for water sharing from Mandovi River flowing from Goa.{{Cite web|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/for-mahadayi-water-2-bandhs-in-10-days/articleshow/62595119.cms|title = For Mahadayi water, 2 bandhs in 10 days}} Some political critiques question the authenticity of Vatal's fight against Goa State for water sharing when he himself fights against Tamil Nadu government for Supreme court order to release water in Cauvery river.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}}
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