Bengaluru:
Karnataka will hold a symbolic session at its second assembly building in Belagavi tomorrow amid Centre’s efforts to enforce law and order and restore peace in the disputed Maharashtra-Karnataka border region. The session will begin at 11 am at ‘Suvarna Vidhan Soudha’, which is based on the seat of Vidhan Soudha in Bengaluru.
Karnataka had formed a second assembly in Belagavi – an area which is centrally located along the border line with Maharashtra. An assembly session is held there once a year to assert Karnataka’s claims on the Marathi-speaking region, which was included in Karnataka during the 1956 reorganization of states on linguistic lines.
Belagavi was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency and Maharashtra was troubled by its inclusion in Karnataka. The resulting feud continues to this day. A case is pending in the Supreme Court.
In the past weeks, trucks from Maharashtra have been attacked in Karnataka and buses from the southern state defaced by activists of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena.
The Assembly session comes soon after Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and agreed that while the matter is being heard by the Supreme Court, no state can assert its claims. Will not take any step to give.
Shah had told reporters, “There is an agreement that until the Supreme Court gives its verdict, the state governments will not lay any claim. The dispute should be settled through talks. A committee was formed with three ministers from each state. Will go.” after the meeting on wednesday
Sources said that the Maharashtra Integration Committee will protest on the first day of the assembly. As soon as the assembly session starts at 11 am, the symbolic strike will start.
Deputy Commissioner Nitesh Patil has issued an order banning Maharashtra MP Dhairysheel Mane from visiting the area.
Sources close to Dhairyasheel indicated that he is likely to arrive at the Kugunoli check post on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border around 10 am.
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