A go to by Maharashtra ministers to Belagavi district, whereas Supreme Court docket is predicted to listen to the border dispute, is inappropriate mentioned Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday. Whereas speaking to the media throughout his go to to Belagavi, Bommai mentioned his authorities had communicated the identical to the Maharashtra authorities.
“We communicated to Maharashtra authorities that the go to of its ministers to Belagavi, at this juncture, will not be acceptable,” he mentioned. “The chief secretary of Karnataka has despatched a fax message to her counterpart in Maharashtra that the go to of ministers received’t be acceptable within the present scenario,” he added.
When requested if state authorities will bar the entry of those ministers, Bommai mentioned that his authorities will take comparable steps “as taken by the sooner state governments throughout such situations up to now”.
“Maharashtra authorities has introduced a ₹2,000 crore irrigation venture for Jath taluk and surrounding areas. This can assist the Kannada-speaking inhabitants in these areas. The announcement has come after we raised considerations in regards to the well-being of Kannada-speaking folks in Maharashtra. The residents of Jath ought to get ingesting water as quickly as potential,” Bommai added.
Professional-Kannada organisations on Wednesday had threatened to stage protests if Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai can be allowed entry into the state to fulfill pro-Maharashtra activists in Belagavi on December 3 over the decades-old border dispute.
The border dispute dates again to the Nineteen Sixties after the reorganisation of states on linguistic strains. Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency because it has a large Marathi-speaking inhabitants. It additionally laid declare to 80 Marathi-speaking villages that are at the moment a part of Karnataka.
Patil and Desai have been appointed because the coordinating ministers for the border row with a mandate to coordinate with the authorized workforce concerning the court docket case on the border dispute between the 2 states. The ministers are scheduled to fulfill pro-Maharashtrian organisation Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) and Belagavi block Shiva Sena at Maratha Mandir at 12pm on December 3.
Members of dozens of Kannada organisations, together with each the factions of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike (KRV) and the Karnataka Navanirmana Sene (KNS), instructed reporters that a whole bunch of activists will take to streets to cease the assembly and the state authorities can be liable for the aftermath incidents. A whole bunch of activists will preserve a watch at each entry level to the district from Maharashtra and stop the ministers from coming into, they mentioned.
Belagavi police commissioner Boralingaiah mentioned that nobody has sought permission for the assembly but, and added that the division has taken acceptable measures to keep up legislation and order within the space.
In the meantime, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president DK Shivakumar mentioned that the Belagavi border dispute is being raked up by the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) authorities to divert folks’s consideration forward of the upcoming Meeting elections.
Talking to reporters in Bengaluru, Shivakumar mentioned that the border dispute is a settled challenge and the ruling get together retains speaking about it to cowl up their failures. “Our chief minister Basavaraj Bommai is making it a giant challenge to cover slurs on the ruling BJP authorities within the state. There’s a conspiracy behind this. The border dispute has been resolved already. The area inside our borders is ours, the realm mendacity of their territory is theirs. Whoever is on our facet is our folks,” Shivakumar mentioned.
He mentioned it isn’t acceptable for anybody belonging to any get together in Maharashtra to disturb peace on the pretext of the border dispute, Shivakumar mentioned. “We have now constructed Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi. Nobody ought to take pleasure in disturbing peace,” he added.