Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, Dhairyasheel Mane said the Marathi-speaking areas had been witnessing protests and agitations.
Dhairyasheel Mane is a Lok Sabha member from the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP. Representative image. (Wikimedia Commons)
A Lok Sabha member from the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP, on Friday, 9 December, accused the BJP government in Karnataka of resorting to “strong-arm tactics” against the state’s Marathi-speaking areas.
Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha, Dhairyasheel Mane, a member from Maharashtra’s Hatkanangle, said the Marathi-speaking parts of Karnataka had been witnessing protests and agitations, and there was an “atmosphere of terror” in the region.
“The state government there, the chief minister has made some statement that has caused anxiety among the people there. There is tension along the border. A law and order problem has arisen,” Mane said.
He said that the Karnataka police had been resorting to strong-arm tactics in a big way and that the Kannada Vedike organisation was treating Marathi-speaking people in an unjust manner.
“There is apprehension of state-sponsored injustice to the people there,” said Mane, who supported Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde when he walked out of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena to form a government with support from the BJP.
The Karnataka-Maharashtra border row escalated into violence after vehicles from both states were attacked and damaged in Belagavi and Pune.
Since its creation on 1 May 1960, Maharashtra has claimed that 865 villages, including Belgaum (now Belagavi), Karwar, and Nipani, should be merged into Maharashtra.
Karnataka, however, has refused to part with the territories.
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