Amid the simmering border dispute, Maharashtra minister Shambhuraj Desai on Wednesday mentioned if Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai doesn’t cease making irresponsible statements, Maharashtra must rethink about water provide from its dams to the neighbouring state. The Maharashtra authorities final month appointed cupboard members Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai as nodal ministers to coordinate with the authorized crew concerning a courtroom case on the state’s border dispute with Karnataka.
Addressing reporters within the Vidhan Bhavan complicated right here, Desai slammed Bommai over Karnataka authorities’s stand that not an inch of land can be given to Maharashtra. The Karnataka legislature has reiterated the state’s stand that the border difficulty is a settled one, and never an inch of land can be given to the neighbouring state.
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Throughout a debate on the border dispute within the Karnataka Legislative Meeting on Tuesday, CM Bommai himself advised passing a unanimous decision in each Homes of the state legislature reiterating and asserting the stand. Desai mentioned he condemns such feedback, which don’t swimsuit Bommai as he holds a constitutional put up.
When the case is sub-judice, a chief minister utilizing such a “threatening language” just isn’t good and he ought to cease it, he mentioned. “Even Maharashtra can reply in the identical language and he mustn’t provoke us,” Desai mentioned.
Maharashtra is sustaining persistence and the Karnataka CM ought to needless to say the southern state may be very a lot depending on water provide from the Koyna and Krishna dams (in Maharashtra) through the dry season of March and April, he mentioned. “If Karnataka doesn’t cease (making such statements), then Maharashtra must rethink over the water being equipped to the neighbouring state,” Desai mentioned.
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Maharashtra stands agency with the Marathi-speaking folks residing within the border areas, he added. On Tuesday, Nationalist Congress Social gathering (NCP) chief Jayant Patil mentioned Maharashtra ought to increase the peak of the upstream dams to “rein in” Karnataka. The border difficulty dates again to 1957 after the reorganisation of states on linguistic traces.
Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants. It additionally laid declare to greater than 800 Marathi-speaking villages that are at present a part of Karnataka. Karnataka maintains the demarcation achieved on linguistic traces as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Fee Report as last.