mysore the conflict between the rangayana and the kannada and culture department over erecting a signboard inside the kalamandira complex is gaining larger proportions a visibly upset rangayana director prasanna told reporters on friday that he has written to chief minister sm krishna to shift rangayana from mysore to avoid frequent clashes between the government officials and the artistes he said he has cited various instances since the time of former director basavalingaiah which have made the efforts of the repertory to keep theatre alive fail miserably vested interests have been wreaking the theatre prospects he rued and hinted at apprising the chief minister of the issues rangayana should not be confined to mysore alone people here should not expect rangayana artistes to make theatre a movement sitting in mysore hence rangayana must be established at an exclusive place he said vehemently denying the allegations against him the theatre activist alleged that some amateur artistes and officials had launched an antiinformation campaign against him it greatly hurts when people accuse me of being antidalit though i made up my mind to resign from the post a couple of times i decided against it as i know that the vested interests would extract a mileage out of it he said citing a few instances prasanna said that his effort to erect a hoarding of rangayana was dubbed an attempt to construct a wall between rangayana and kalamandira when we formed artistes welfare association to run the canteen as the present contractor wanted to withdraw these people alleged that i was driving him out prasanna regretted such developments are certainly not in the interest of theatre or art he cried