Sharad Pawar’s BIG warning to Centre and the BJP government in Karnataka on Maharashtra-Karnataka border
Mumbai: In the midst of the heightening of the boundary line among Karnataka and Maharashtra, Patriot Congress Party boss Sharad Pawar on Tuesday cautioned that in the event that things don’t work on in the following 24 hours, then, at that point, the Middle and the BJP government in Karnataka will be answerable for any inappropriate circumstance. Pawar likewise cautioned the Karnataka government not to genially test the persistence of individuals of Maharashtra and resolve the issue.
The veteran Maratha leader said that the ”time has come to take a firm stand” after seeing what is happening there on the Maharashtra and Karnataka border. The BCP supremo said, “CM Eknath Shinde must keep all the parties in confidence before taking any decision. Parliament session is about to begin, I request all MPs to come together & take a stand on the same.”
Accusing the Basavaraj Bommai-led BJP government of deliberately escalating the situation.
It could be reviewed that Maharashtra Priests Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, selected for planning the state’s boundary debate with Karnataka, were prior booked to meet activists of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti at Belagavi in the southern state on Tuesday and hold converses with them on the many years old line issue.
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said he will ask his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde not to send his cabinet colleagues to Belagavi as their visit may disrupt the law and order situation in the border district.
Asserting the border dispute with Maharashtra is settled, the CM said he has already instructed the officials concerned regarding the measures to be taken in case the ministers go ahead with the visit, and that the government will not hesitate to take any legal action.
Last week, Chandrakant Patil said there was a demand from the Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, an organisation fighting for the merger of Belagavi and some other border areas with Maharashtra, to hold discussions with the volunteers on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border issue.
Maharashtra, since its inception in 1960, has been entangled in a dispute with Karnataka over the status of Belagavi district and 80 other Marathi-speaking villages, which are under the control of the southern state.
