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Border Row: 'Action Will Be Taken Against Ministers Making Comments Over Issue': Resolution Passed In K'taka Assembly States

Karnataka Assembly condemned the Maharashtra ministers, who made comments over the border issue.

Condemning the Maharashtra ministers' comments over the Karnataka-Maharashtra border issue, the Karnataka Assembly Thursday unanimously passed a resolution. The resolution states that legal action will be taken against the ministers making comments on the border issue.

This resolution comes a day after Maharashtra's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Jayant Patil said Maharashtra should raise the height of the upstream dams to "rein in" the neighbouring state. Speaking in the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday, Patil said Karnataka was deliberately harassing Marathi-speaking people in its border areas.

Also read | Border Row: Raise Height Of Dams On Rivers Flowing Into Karnataka To 'Rein It In', Says NCP leader

“We should reply to what the Karnataka chief minister says in the same language. If they have so much attitude, then we will raise the height of dams on Koyna and Warna rivers and that of all the dams in Satara and Kolhapur districts. They (Karnataka leaders) would not be brought under control otherwise," the former Maharashtra water resources minister said.

"If Karnataka holds us to ransom, then we have water,” he added.

As reported earlier, the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly Siddaramiah slammed CM Basavaraj Bommai and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to have agreed to form a coordination committee with Maharashtra.

Taking to Twitter, Siddaramaiah alleged that this is a ploy of Maharashtra to keep the border issue alive. "Union Home Minister Amit Shah should not have called for a meeting on the Belagavi-Maharashtra border issue and Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai should not have participated in it. This is a ploy of Maharashtra to keep the border issue alive," he tweeted.

(With PTI inputs)

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