‘Speak in Kannada’: Woman claims she was harassed for speaking in Hindi at Diljit Dosanjh’s Bengaluru concert

The woman claimed she was pushed and abused by another woman at the concert.

A woman claimed that she was harassed by another woman over Kannada language at Diljit Dosanjh's Bengaluru concert (Image source: @diljitdosanjh/Instagram)

While social media is swamped with videos of Deepika Padukone’s special appearance at Diljit Dosajh’s Bengaluru concert, a woman, in an X post, shared harrowing details of how the event turned into a “Kannada language row” for her. Sharing the incident, Tanisha Sabherwal claimed that a woman pushed her and hurled abuses after she requested her to move aside.

Sabherwal said that the altercation escalated when her friend came to defend her, and the woman in question twisted his arm. Sabherwal—who recorded the incident—was then threatened with police action.

“I never thought I’ll be saying this, after having lived for so long but BANGALORE WILL COLLAPSE soon because of this language issue. If you’re gonna say ‘then learn’, go ahead but READ ON. Yesterday’s Diljeet concert experience was pathetic,” Sabherwal wrote on X.

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“Things got accelerated, she took out her phone, started aggressively speaking all the castist things. We started recording too. Next you know she held my friends hand and twisted, which was thankfully on video too. Touchwood, most people supported, asked her to not create scene,” she wrote.

Sabherwal also claimed that the woman started crying and pretended to collapse, and asked her to delete the video. “Police left, never came back. Now was the time for final woman card. She started crying, acted to collapse and created a whole scene. Mind you, she had no one around. Her friends left as soon as she started creating a scene,” she wrote.

See the post here:

I never thought I’ll be saying this, after having lived for so long but BANGALORE WILL COLLAPSE soon because of this language issue.

If you’re gonna say ‘then learn’, go ahead but READ ON.

Yesterday’s Diljeet concert experience was pathetic.

— Tanisha Sabherwal (@tanishaaa03) December 7, 2024

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The post accumulated nearly two million views. Several social media users condemned the incident. “Thank God she didn’t ask Diljeet to sing in Kannada,” a user wrote. “Very unlikely that a ‘speak in Kannada’ person attends a Diljeet concert,” another user commented.

Diljit Dosanjh has been making headlines with his “Dil-Luminati” India tour. He will conclude his tour on December 29 with his last concert in Guwahati.

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