New Delhi, May 3 -- Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam stirred controversy in Karnataka with his recent remarks. It happened so after pro-Kannada groups accused him of equating their language activism with terrorism with his statement from an event.

The Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV), the prominent Kannada outfit, has registered a formal complaint to the Bengaluru police. They accused the singer of "comparing Kannada and the Kannadigas' language struggle to terrorism and what happened in Pahalgam."

They reportedly claimed that he was "trying to incite enmity between different linguistic groups."

They called his words an unacceptable comparison between a democratic cultural assertion and terrorism.

The group also warned that they will bar So...