PTI | | Posted by Pathi Venkata Thadhagath
Police have tightened safety throughout Belagavi district, the epicentre of decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra, because the case pertaining to it’s developing earlier than the Supreme Courtroom. Police officers stated they’ve put in 21 checkposts in Belagavi district together with the town, and likewise further Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) forces have been deployed.
“We have now determined to take measures to see to it that no untoward incident takes place, with a case developing within the Supreme Courtroom and likewise to see to it that incidents that occurred final week, do not repeat,” ADGP (Regulation and Order) Alok Kumar has stated. This comes within the wake of some incidents like inflicting injury or blackening of buses and automobiles on each side, over the border dispute. Aimed toward sustaining peace within the border areas, Karnataka and the Maharashtra police on Tuesday held a gathering at Nippani. Within the assembly, they’ve determined to behave powerful in opposition to parts attempting to disrupt peace and concord and trigger injury to public properties. The police additionally stated that they’re taking all precautionary measures, within the wake of the potential go to by Maharashtra Ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai to Belagavi on December 3 to satisfy the functionaries of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) (Professional-Maharashtra outfit), energetic right here.
A senior official stated, the state police will not block any personal visits of leaders from Maharashtra, however will act if there are any makes an attempt to disrupt peace. All of the precautionary measures have and can proceed to be taken within the wake of the courtroom case, potential go to of the Maharashtra Ministers and the upcoming Meeting session right here in Belagavi from December 19. The border dispute dates again to the Sixties 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 large Marathi-speaking inhabitants. It additionally laid declare to quite a few Marathi-speaking villages that are at the moment a part of Karnataka. On its half as an assertion that Belagavi is an integral a part of the state, Karnataka has constructed the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the state secretariat in Bengaluru, and a legislature session is held right here every year.
Slamming the neighbouring state’s leaders for “provocative” statements on the border dispute, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had just lately stated predominantly Kannada-speaking areas of Maharashtra together with Solapur and Akkalkot areas belonged to the state.