Cika wannan jumla: A ranar 31 ga Janairu, 2006,
A ranar tunawa da mutuwar Mahatma Gandhi, Gowda ya yi azumi tun daga wayewar gari har zuwa wayewar gari don neman matsayin yaren gargajiya na Kannada. Tun da farko ya yi azumi sau daya a baya saboda wannan dalili kuma ya yi barazanar dawo da Padma Shri da aka ba shi a 2001. Daga ƙarshe bai dawo da kyautar ba kamar yadda yake fatan samun amsa mai kyau daga Shugaban A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. A cikin 2014, tsohon minista P. G. R. Sindhia ya nemi gwamnati ta ba shi lakabin mawallafin mawallafi ("Rashtrakavi") saboda gudummawar da ya bayar ga yaren Kannada.