You cannot succeed in twisting arms(including the legan one) as you want,always.
It has always been the case that lower reprarian states get less world over.This is the only case where the lower reprarian state is getting more and this would be fought by kannadigas tooth and nail. We need not learn peace from people who have killed thousands in Srilanka. We need not learn peace from people who killed Rajiv Gandhi. We need not learn peace from people who have created trouble in Malaysia.