New Delhi: The Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution expressing solidarity with those living in the contentious boundary region with Karnataka, reported news agency ANI. The resolution was moved by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. All the necessary legal pursuits will be done in the Supreme Court to include Belgaum, Karvar, Nipani, Bhalki, Bidar cities & 865 Marathi-speaking villages of Karnataka in Maharashtra under any circumstances, reads the resolution tabled by CM.
Central Govt should urge the Karnataka Govt to implement the decision taken in the meeting with the Union Home Minister and Govt should be given an understanding to guarantee the safety of the Marathi people in the border areas, it added.
The border issue between Maharashtra and Karnataka dates back to 1957 after the reorganisation of states on linguistic lines.
Notably, the Karnataka Legislative Assembly had on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution moved by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the border row, resolving to protect the southern state's interests. The Bharatiya Janata Party is in power in Karanataka as well as Maharashtra, where it is in an alliance with the Shinde-led faction of Shiv Sena.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier assured the House that a resolution on the border row would be tabled in a day or two.
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“We will fight even for an inch. We will do whatever we can for the justice of the Marathi-speaking population in Karnataka,” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader said.
While on his visit to Delhi on Monday, Shinde had met with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla regarding the issue and said that the boundary dispute between the two states was before the Supreme Court.