May 05, 2025 03:47 PM IST Calling Kannada his ‘second language’ when it comes to work, Sonu Nigam says he loathes ‘anyone trying to create hate in the name of language or religion’.  The controversy surrounding Sonu Nigam has intensified days after his statement from a concert held at the East Point College of Engineering and Technology in Bengaluru. A video from the concert went viral, where the singer was seen schooling a group of attendees who insisted that the singer sang in Kannada as soon as he started the show. After a police complaint was apparently lodged against him by a pro-Kannada organisation, Sonu Nigam took to social media to share a video, titled ‘Just love’, as a response to the controversy. However, yesterday, some reports claimed that the Kannada film industry is planning to distance itself from Sonu. Sonu Nigam In a statement shared with us, Sonu said, “Namaskara. I have given unprecedented love to the language, the culture, the music, the musicians, the state and the people not just when I am …