 In 1998, Kannada Development Authority recommended for granting it state flag status but the state law department cited legal hurdles for the same.In 2009, B. S. Yeddyurappa, then Chief Minister of Karnataka, issued a circular enforcing restrictions on hoisting Kannada flag on government buildings.Later, this move was challenged in Karnataka High Court in 2012 after then Chief Minister D. V. Sadananda Gowda mentioned in his budget speech that the hoisting of the Kannada flag on 1 November will be made compulsory in all government offices, schools and colleges.