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'''Vatal Madappa Nagaraj''' is an Indian Politician who was the Member of the [[Karnataka Legislative Assembly]] from Chamarajnagar. president of the [[Kannada Chaluvali Vatal Paksha]]. {{infobox officeholder |birth_date ={{birth date and age|1940|05|29|df=yes}} |birth_place= Vatalu }}<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|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|via=The Hindu}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><br />
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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 to [[Kempe Gowda]] now stands in its place.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/Reclaiming-the-city/articleshow/25010522.cms|title=Renaming the City|website=Bangalore Mirror}}</ref><br />
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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.He also protest against all who speaks against kannada, Karnataka. <ref>http://www.news18.com/news/movies/kannada-group-holds-protest-against-baahubali-actor-sathyaraj-1379037.html</ref><ref>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/</ref> The protest was called off latter. In 2018 he started a new agitation on January 25 for water sharing from MAHADAYI river flowing from Goa.<ref>http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/for-mahadayi-water-2-bandhs-in-10-days/articleshow/62595119.cms</ref> Some political critiques question the authenticity of Vatal's fight against Goa State for water sharing when he himself fight against Tamil Nadu government for Supreme court order to release water in Cauvery river.<br />
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