Dancer Salman Yusuff Khan Harassed At Bengaluru Airport For Not Knowing Kannada

New Delhi: Choreographer Salman Yusuff Khan revealed that he was harassed by an immigration officer – on his way to Dubai – for not communicating in Kannada, despite being born in Bengaluru.

Taking to Instagram,  Salman Yusuff shared a video and wrote,”@kempegowdainternationalairport .. on my way to Dubai and I meet this immigration officer who speaks to me in Kannada .. and I in my broken Kannada try to tell him that I understand the language but can’t speak so well to which he continues to speak in Kannada and shows me my passport and points out my name and my birthplace and my father’s name and his birthplace and has the audacity to tell me that .. you and your father are born in Bangalore and u can’t speak Kannada ..” He further revealed that he told the immigration officer that he hasn’t spent a lot of time in the city, because he was raised in Saudi Arabia. He learnt some Kannada because of his friends in Bengaluru. After hearing this, Salman claimed tha the officerold him, “If u can’t speak Kannada, I can suspect you…”

“I told him that I know my nation’s official language Hindi why should I know Kannada ..I asked him again suspect me for what ..?and he says. I can just suspect you for anything …I told him … TRY ME. And got a little louder and repeated TRY ME .. thrice …To which he kept quiet ..I told him that if uneducated people like you continue to live in this country this country will never grow …To which he just kept his head down and murmuring”, he continued.

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For the unversed, a Bengaluru auto driver and a woman also got into a verbal spat over her not knowing Kannada. The video of the scuffle went viral on social media.