Maharashtra Minister Shambhuraj Desai on Tuesday issued an announcement relating to his go to to the Maharashtra-Karnataka border and acknowledged that his go to has been postponed and never cancelled.
Addressing the media on the event of Dr Ambedkar’s Mahaparinirvan Diwas, he acknowledged, “As we speak we have been to go to the border space in Belagavi, about this, we had knowledgeable the Karnataka authorities. This system was organized to debate the border subject with the individuals so {that a} peaceable answer might be discovered on this matter.”
“A heavy drive was deployed on the Karnataka border in order that we couldn’t go there. This motion of the Karnataka CM isn’t appropriate, anybody has the proper to go anyplace”, he acknowledged slamming the Chief Minister of Karnataka Basavaraj Bommai.
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He additional alleged, “The Karnataka authorities says that regulation enforcement might be affected if we go there.”
The minister additional stated, “We thought that there shouldn’t be any sort of stress on the event of Mahaparinirvan Diwas of Baba Saheb, so we didn’t go immediately”, and added, “this program isn’t over, so we’ll do that tour later”.
In the meantime, Talking to ANI, Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi (MES) chief Sarita Patil stated, “The Maharashtra Ministers who have been to return in Belgavi, now their programme is cancelled because of Mahaparinirvan Diwas as we acquired to know from Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s assertion.”
Maharashtra has appointed Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai because the coordinating ministers for the state’s border row with Karnataka. The 2 states have been entangled in a row for many years over the demarcation of boundaries between them.
“Their go to is cancelled now however we hope that they are going to go to on another day. I additionally request them to go to by this yr. On December 19, there may be Adhiveshan (session) in Belgavi and I request them on behalf of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi to go to right here,” she added.
Patil and Desai have been initially scheduled to go to Belagavi on December 3 however on the request of the Belagavi Ambedkar group, their go to was postponed and each have been to reach in Belagavi on December 6, on the demise anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar.
After the Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute escalated, many untoward incidents came about in Belagavi.
Yesterday, Karnataka CM Bommai appealed to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to battle the border dispute subject legally as it’s in courtroom now. Bommai additionally raised considerations over the go to of the 2 ministers to Belagavi.
In the meantime, in Belagavi’s Chikkodi as a precautionary measure, police presence has been tightened alongside the border.
In accordance with police, six Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) contingents are deployed in Nippani Taluk. 450 policemen assigned to Kuganolli Examine Put up.
Senior officers such because the Superintendent of Police (SP) Further SP, DSPs, Police Inspectors, Sub-inspectors and 450 police personnel have been deployed.
All internal roads of Nippani and Chikkodi taluk are blocked. Police are checking each automobile coming into the border.
Belagavi is presently a part of Karnataka however is claimed by Maharashtra. As per media studies, the long-running Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute began again in 1953, after the Maharashtra authorities objected to the inclusion of 865 villages together with Belagavi.
The villages are unfold throughout Belagavi and the north-western and north-eastern areas of Karnataka – all bordering Maharashtra.
After the implementation of the State Reorganization Act, of 1956, the Maharashtra authorities demanded the readjustment of its border with Karnataka. Following this, a four-member committee was fashioned by each states.
Maharashtra authorities had expressed willingness to switch Kannada-speaking 260 villages predominantly, but it surely was turned down by Karnataka.
Now, each Karnataka and Maharashtra governments have approached the Supreme Courtroom to expedite the matter, and the matter continues to be pending.