After the Maharashtra authorities cancelled the go to of its two ministers to Karnataka’s Belagavi within the backdrop of the simmering tensions over the border dispute, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti slammed the federal government for “insulting the Marathi neighborhood in Karnataka”.
Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai had been scheduled to satisfy the MES activists in Belagavi on Tuesday to carry talks concerning the border challenge.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena’s Belagavi metropolis block president Prakash Shirolkar mentioned: “Maharashtra is the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj… and is thought for bravery. Nevertheless, Eknath Shinde and BJP-led state authorities spoiled this picture worldwide by cancelling the ministers go to”.
“We the Marathis in Belagavi are feeling insulted over this act of Maharashtra. We’re shedding our solely hope on this 65-year-border dispute during which dozens sacrificed their lives,” he mentioned.
“Why was the tour of the ministers scheduled on December 3 postponed to six and later once more pushed forward,” he requested. “Didn’t they know that it was BR Ambedkar’s jayanthi? Its nothing however escaping techniques. What else are you able to count on from the coward authorities,” Shirolkar mentioned.
Earlier, Maharashtra minister Shambhuraje Desai mentioned that the go to was not cancelled however simply postponed “to keep away from disturbance to the programmes organized in Belagavi on the eve of Ambedkar Mahaparinirwan Diwas”. “As per the federal government resolution we didn’t go to…however will quickly meet the Marathis in Belagavi and desk their demand and grievances earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, MES additionally expressed displeasure over the cancellation of the ministers go to whereas terming the federal government’s motive for a similar as “foolish”.
“Did Maharashtra authorities not know the day of Ambedkar’s dying anniversary…they’d chosen the date with an intention to cancel the go to,” MES mentioned.
Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti Deepak Dalavi chief alleged: “Marathis in Karnataka are being compelled to study Kannada by making the language obligatory in administrative work. Paperwork are being given solely in Kannada language which Marathis received’t perceive. Regardless of the directions from the linguistic minority division, minorities together with Marathis usually are not given paperwork of their language”.
Karnataka Rakshana Vedike president T A Narayana Gowda in the meantime criticised the state authorities for banning the entry of the outfit activists . “We had been going to encourage the Kannadigas who had been attacked by the Marathis and the police”.
“It’s unlucky that Kannadigas usually are not being given safety in their very own land and we too are being prevented from consoling our folks. No place throughout the nation has such sorry state of affairs like Kannadigas in Karnataka,” he mentioned.
He warned the state authorities towards “pleasing anti-state folks like Marathis” and contemplating the Kannadigas in Belagavi as “second division folks”.
“The state authorities’s act of pleasing anti-state folks like Marathis and contemplating the Kannadigas in Belagavi as second division folks will show pricey within the days to come back as we are going to take this negligence severely”.