Bengaluru, March 3 -- Karnataka Congress MLA Ravikumar Gowda Ganiga said actress Rashmika Mandanna has disregarded Kannada and should be "taught a lesson."

While speaking to the media, he said, "Rashmika Mandanna, who started her career with the Kannada movie Kirik Party in Karnataka, refused to attend the International Film Festival last year when we invited her. She said, 'I have my house in Hyderabad, I don't know where Karnataka is, and I don't have time. I can't come. One of our legislator friends visited her house 10-12 times to invite her, but she refused and even disregarded Kannada, despite growing up in the industry here. Shouldn't we teach them a lesson?"

The BJP was quick to react, slamming the Congress for objecting to the ...