The decades-long border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka has flared up with Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai attacking one another. Fadnavis on Wednesday assured that no village from Maharashtra will go anyplace, replying to which Bommai known as Fadnavis’s assertion provocative.
“Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has made a provocative assertion on the Karnataka Maharashtra border difficulty and his dream won’t ever come true. Our authorities is dedicated to defending the nation’s land, water and borders,” Bommai mentioned.
The Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute is once more on the centrestage because the Supreme Court docket is scheduled to listen to the case this month. Forward of the listening to, each governments are within the technique of readying their authorized groups to struggle the case. In the meantime, Bommai claimed that some villages in Maharashtra’s Sangli district handed a decision to merge with Karnataka, going through a water disaster.
Fadnavis on Wednesday clarified that no such decision has been made within the current previous and that the decision that Bommai referred to was in 2012. “Not a single village of Maharashtra will go anyplace,” Fadnavis mentioned.
NCP chief Supriya Sule mentioned now Karnataka and Maharashtra have the identical ruling get together and rekindling the border dispute won’t serve the curiosity of both of the state.
What’s the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute?
The border dispute dates again to the time when the states have been shaped. Maharashtra claimed 865 villages on the border ought to have been merged with Maharashtra, whereas Karnataka claims 260 villages okay Kannada talking inhabitants.
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