The Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) has threatened to take the Election Fee of India (ECI) to court docket over not offering the voters’ listing in Marathi within the disputed Belagavi district.
This assertion comes after the ECI revealed the voters’ listing forward of the upcoming meeting election within the state. Amidst the continuing border dispute, the voter listing popping out solely in Kannada has change into a political situation within the district. The professional-Maharashtrian organisation has complained to Election Fee towards the state election fee and warned it could boycott the election if the listing just isn’t revealed within the Marathi language
MES knocked on the door of the Union Linguistic Minorities’ Fee towards Karnataka for not following the fee’s pointers, alleging that Marathis have been deliberately harassed by not offering their property-related paperwork, and information, not displaying the boards in authorities workplaces and buses, solely Kannada is being utilized in companies which they’d not observe.
Former MES-supported Unbiased MLA Manohar Kinekar stated, “Article 29 (1) of the Structure of India gives that any part of the residents residing within the territory of India or any half thereof having a definite language, script, or tradition of its personal shall proper to preserve the identical and added that as per the Election Fee letter 3-4-2008 dt 16-9-2008, it was clearly instructed to the Chief Election Officer of Karnataka to publish all electoral associated materials additionally in Marathi.”
“Nonetheless, the Karnataka Election Fee just isn’t following the order of the Union Election Fee, for which we determined to file a go well with with the supreme court docket. Our transfer might give justice to these minorities in different states together with Kannadigas in Maharashtra. We have been supplied with the electoral-related supplies in our language till the final election,” he stated.
Madhyavarti MES Belagavi metropolis president Shubham Shelke stated not following the directions of the Linguistic Minorities and the Election Fee was one more instance of the alleged atrocities towards Marathis in Karnataka. “We’ll maintain persevering with our administrative wrestle continued till getting justice and our subsequent era can even proceed the identical,” he stated.
Whereas Belagavi district president of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike Deepak Gudaganatti stated Kannada is an official language of the state which the non-Kannadigas should study and obey to the language. “Different linguistics like Telugu, Urdu, Malayalam, Sikhs and even Tamils have gotten adjusted to our language. What was the issue with Marathis particularly in Belagavi. Marathis right here know higher Kannada, nonetheless simply to maintain their border wrestle alive to get profit from Maharashtra they’re doing all this,” he stated.
Karnataka Sarvodaya Seva Sangha which erected Kannada flags in lots of necessary locations in Belagavi stated no documentation in Marathi be given till Kannadigas in Maharashtra have been supplied with the identical of their language.