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Karnataka-Maharashtra border row: Maharastra ministers to visit Belagavi on 6 December

The visit, which was earlier scheduled for 3 December, was rescheduled in the light of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar's death anniversary.

ByPTI

Published Dec 02, 2022 | 2:39 PM ⚊UpdatedDec 02, 2022 | 2:39 PM

Karntaka Law & Order ADGP Alok Kumar inspecting Koganolli Check-post on Karnataka border. (SPBelagavi/Twitter)

Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai will meet the activists of Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti at Belgaum on 6 December and hold talks with them on the decades-old border dispute between Maharashtra and the neighbouring state.

As per the earlier schedule, the two ministers were supposed to visit Belgaum on December 3.

In a tweet in Marathi, Patil said some Ambedkarite organisations have urged them to remain present in Belgaum on the occasion of Mahaparinirvan Diwas, the death anniversary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar.
So instead of 3 December, he and Desai will be in Belgaum on 6 December.

Earlier this week, Patil had said there was a demand from the Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti, an organisation fighting for the merger of Belgaum and some other border areas with Maharashtra, to hold discussions with the volunteers on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border issue.

“Accordingly, I and coordinating minister Shamburaj Desai will visit Belgaum on 3 December and hold discussions. Let’s meet up. Discussions surely will lead to a way,” Patil had tweeted earlier with a letter from the Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti seeking a meeting with him and Desai.

६ डिसेंबर रोजी महामानव भारतरत्न डॉ. बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर यांच्या महापरिनिर्वाण दिनानिमित्त काही कार्यक्रमांना येण्याचा बेळगाव येथील आंबेडकरवादी संघटनांचा आग्रह आहे. त्यानुसार मी आणि समन्वयक मंत्री @shambhurajdesai आमचा ३ डिसेंबरचा बेळगाव प्रवास ६ डिसेंबरला करणार आहोत.@CMOMaharashtra

— Chandrakant Patil (Modi Ka Parivar) (@ChDadaPatil) December 1, 2022

Patil and Desai were appointed as the coordinating minister for the border row with a mandate to coordinate with the legal team regarding the court case on the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka, according to a government resolution.

The ministers will also be responsible for coordination with the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti that roots for the merging of the Marathi-speaking areas in Karnataka with the state.

They will also look into the problems faced by the residents of 865 villages over which the Maharashtra government has staked its claim in this decades-old issue, the resolution said.

कर्नाटकचे माजी आमदार डॉ. एम. जी. मुळे आणि बिदर जिल्ह्यातील मराठी भाषकांच्या शिष्टमंडळाने सीमाभागातील मराठी बांधवांच्या अडी-अडचणींबाबत माझी भेट घेतली. महाराष्ट्रातील युती सरकार सीमाभागातील मराठी बांधवांच्या पाठीशी खंबीरपणे उभं असल्याची ग्वाही देत त्यांना आश्वस्त केलं. pic.twitter.com/q1d6jSYdxN

— Chandrakant Patil (Modi Ka Parivar) (@ChDadaPatil) December 1, 2022

Patil is a senior state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, while Desai is a member of the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena faction of the Shiv Sena. Both hail from western Maharashtra.

Maharashtra, since its inception in 1960, has been entangled in a dispute with Karnataka over the status of Belgaum (also called Belagavi) district and 80 other Marathi-speaking villages, which are in the control of the southern state.

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