Belagavi (Karnataka):
The Maharashtra-Karnataka border row that has escalated over the past two weeks culminated in a clash at an inter-college festival in Belagavi in Karnataka district, which Maharashtra claims. It allegedly started because a student was waving the traditional Kannada or Karnataka flag, which got enraged and the Marathi students assaulted the student who was waving the flag.
Police said teachers and other staff of the host college at Tilakwadi in Belagavi intervened to stop the fight. Area police chief Ravindra Gadadi and other officials went to the college and started an investigation.
The assaulted student – a minor who is in the second year of pre-university (Class 12) – was also told by the police that he should not have instigated the brawl by waving the flag at a time when borderline tensions had escalated. come to know .
The territorial dispute, which goes back to the language-based reorganization of states, flared up recently after Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai indirectly claimed some areas of Maharashtra.
But at the heart of it is Maharashtra’s demand that Belagavi and some other Marathi-speaking areas were erroneously given to Kannada-majority Karnataka in the reorganization. This matter is going on in the Supreme Court for several decades.
Politics on the matter has become complicated as the BJP is in power in both the states and elections are due in Karnataka next year.
“The border dispute is a political tool used by all parties in Maharashtra,” Bommai said, adding that Maharashtra’s arguments have not been found valid as the reorganization “hasn’t been reviewed in any case in all these years”. “.
The Maharashtra leadership has said Mr. Bommai’s statements are “provocative”.
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