Amid simmering anxiety on the Karnataka-Maharashtra border in which large protests had been deliberate nowadays for the closing wintry weather consultation of the BS Bommai authorities in Karnataka, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena leaders had been detained and brought into preventive custody. NCP’s Hasan Mushrif, and Shiv Sena’s Kolhapur district president Vijay Devane, had been detained nowadays even as looking to input Karnataka’s Belagavi, the centre of the decades-vintage border dispute in which the 10-day wintry weather consultation of the Karnataka Assembly is being held. This can be the country’s closing wintry weather consultation earlier than it is going to polls subsequent year.
More than three hundred participants of Shiv Sena, Congress, and NCP had been stopped on the border and despatched returned via way of means of Karnataka, and a few had been detained via way of means of the Maharashtra police.
Activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an business enterprise that has been elevating the difficulty for over 5 decades, have deliberate big protests in advance of the wintry weather consultation of the Karnataka Assembly. Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole has blamed the dispute at the Centre, accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “dividing” India.
“The border trouble is occurring due to the significant authorities. PM Modi desires to divide Maharashtra. Despite the assembly among each Chief Ministers and Home Minister Amit Shah, why are leaders now no longer allowed to head there? This indicates that the significant authorities is at the back of this trouble,” he stated.
The Chief Ministers of Karnataka and Maharashtra had agreed now no longer to press their claims withinside the decades-lengthy country border dispute until the Supreme Court takes a name at the matter, Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated closing week after a assembly with the 2 leaders.
However, Maharashtra Chief Minister CM Eknath Shinde nowadays stated the difficulty is of “Maharashtra’s pride” and that the country has taken a sturdy stand on the difficulty.
“Home Minister himself knowledgeable the media approximately the difficulty. The Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti is protesting nowadays, there ought to now no longer be any politics in this trouble. There are numerous different problems over which we will do politics,” he stated. Mr Shinde stated he has data from the police approximately who’re the villagers who need to enroll in Karnataka, and “who’re at the back of them”
“We are with our human beings and could offer some thing required. We even instructed BS Bommai that something you’re tweeting is not right, he stated that that is not his Twitter handle,” Eknath Shinde stated.
Maharashtra have been disappointed over the inclusion of Marathi-talking areas — along with Belgavi, a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency — in Karnataka for the duration of the reorganisation of states on linguistic lines. It additionally laid declare to 814 Marathi-talking villages which might be presently a part of Karnataka. Karnataka continues the demarcation is very last and there may be no change.
First-time Maharashtra MP Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane, who became appointed because the leader of the Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute professional committee, became anticipated to go to Belagavi nowadays, despite the fact that the district management has barred his entry.
“If the appearance of Maharashtra MP into Karnataka threatens regulation and order, we are able to provoke action. No permission has been granted for him to go into Belagavi. He can be stopped on the border and despatched returned,” Additional Director General of Police, Law & Order, Alok Kumar, had stated.
Dhairyasheel Sambhajirao Mane became scheduled to participate withinside the occasion organised via way of means of the MMES, however the police stated it’s far in all likelihood that he may also supply inflammatory speeches, which might cause linguistic struggle and create a regulation and order problem, ultimately main to harm to public properties.
More than sixty one enterprises had sought permission to maintain protests for the duration of the Assembly consultation, forcing a big deployment of police at the ground.
More than 4,000 police employees along with six Superintendents of Police, eleven extra Superintendents, forty three deputy Superintendents, ninety five police inspectors, and 241 police sub-inspectors had been deployed in Belagavi.
Over the closing weeks, vehicles from Maharashtra had been attacked in Karnataka and buses of the southern country had been defaced via way of means of people of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena.