Mysuru:  The Codava National Council (CNC) will organise the 28th Codava National Day on Dec. 2 at Madikeri to give a call to “right to live.” In a press release, CNC President N.U. Nachappa said that Kodavas see efforts to minimise the population of Kodavas with the use of government powers.

“We are being exterminated by people in power,” he alleged. CNC wants to re-insist and rejuvenate Kodagu’s geo-political aspiration for the quest of autonomy and register the Kodavas’ solidarity for self-determination and the right of Kodava tribal world through the Annual Codava National Day, he said.

Nachappa said that the programme this time also intends to help victims of landslips so that they regain their lost land where they lived for generations.

He said the State government and other agencies had collected more than Rs. 5,000 crore for relief, claiming that the entire district had been affected. But, in fact, only 12 per cent of Kodagu had suffered landslides, he said.