Karnataka CM B Bommai spoke to Amit Shah on border dispute with Maharashtra today
Bengaluru:
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai today said he has briefed Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the state’s stand and facts regarding the escalating border dispute with Maharashtra, who is likely to convene a meeting of chief ministers of the two states next week.
He also indicated that the state government may soon convene an all-party meeting to discuss the issue.
The chief minister’s statement came after a delegation of MPs from the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (the opposition alliance in Maharashtra) met Amit Shah on Friday over the border dispute with Karnataka.
“I have asked a delegation of my MPs to meet (Amit Shah) on Monday. I have also spoken to Amit Shah. He said he will send the information and in two to three days he will call me and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra ” Probably this meeting will be held on 14 or 15 December.
Speaking to reporters in Bengaluru, the Chief Minister said that he has already informed Amit Shah about Karnataka’s stand and facts as well as details regarding the dispute.
“On Monday, our MPs will share all the details, and as soon as he (Amit Shah) calls, I will also go and reiterate Karnataka’s stand before him,” he said.
The chief minister had last night said the meeting of a Maharashtra delegation with Amit Shah on the border dispute would not make any difference and asserted that his government would not compromise on the issue.
Noting that Maharashtra has tried to do the same before, he said, “The matter is in the Supreme Court. We have a strong valid case in the Supreme Court.” Responding to a question on Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah demanding the government to convene an all-party meeting to discuss the border dispute, Mr. Bommai today said he would speak to both Siddaramaiah and JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy.
“I spoke to Siddaramaiah yesterday and told him that I will inform him about further developments. I will speak to both Siddaramaiah and Kumaraswamy,” he said.
The border row intensified earlier this week, with vehicles from both sides being targeted, leaders from both states weighing in, and Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police amid a tense atmosphere in the border district of Belagavi. was taken in
After this, the Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Maharashtra spoke to each other over the phone and agreed that peace and law and order should be maintained on both sides.
The border issue dates back to the reorganization of states on linguistic basis in 1957. Maharashtra laid claim to Belagavi, which was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking population. It also laid claim to 814 Marathi-speaking villages that are currently part of Karnataka.
Finalizes the demarcation done on linguistic basis as per Karnataka State Reorganization Act and 1967 Mahajan Commission Report.
And, as a claim that Belagavi is an integral part of the state, Karnataka has built the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, which is based on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the legislature in Bengaluru, and a legislature session is held there annually. .
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