Thackeray said, ‘Karnataka’s side was taken in the meeting with Amit Shah, Shinde said – there should be no politics’

Maharashtra-Karnataka Border Dispute: Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) President Uddhav Thackeray said on Thursday that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s meeting with the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute did not yield any result. At a press conference after a meeting with his allies the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MBA) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), he said it was difficult to believe that the verified tweet handle of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the issue had The tweets were not actually posted by him.

Thackeray said, “What was achieved by yesterday’s meeting of Union Home Minister Amit Shah with the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka? It was like rubbing salt on our wounds. As usual the deliberations favored Karnataka.”

The former chief minister demanded to know why Karnataka conducts its assembly session in Belagavi (the northern Karnataka city which is the main bone of contention between the two states) and accorded it the status of a second capital when the border dispute was before the Supreme Court.

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“Belagavi, Karwar, Nipani and other adjoining areas (of northern Karnataka) want to join Maharashtra. Why is there no response to this demand,” he said. He also sought to know why the Karnataka chief minister waited till Wednesday’s meeting in Delhi to clarify that some “fake” Twitter handles were posting tweets in his name, fueling tensions. “What action has been taken so far? Is it believable?” He asked. The MVA meeting was attended by NCP leader Ajit Pawar and Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan.

On the protest march, Uddhav Thackeray said

On a protest march organized by the MVA in Mumbai on Saturday, Thackeray said, “All people who love Maharashtra should join it.” Pawar and Thackeray said that during the march, issues such as border dispute with Karnataka, insult to personalities of Maharashtra and industrial projects going to other states would be highlighted. Union minister Shah met the chief ministers of both the states on Wednesday after violence broke out in the border region where Maharashtra has laid claim to 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka besides Belagavi. Recently, Karnataka has also staked claim on South Solapur and Akkalkot regions of Maharashtra, which have a sizeable Kannada speaking population.

Eknath Shinde said on Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute

Maharashtra Chief Minister amid allegations by opposition alliance NCP-Congress-Shiv Sena of a meeting chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute Eknath Shinde Said that it should be appreciated that the Center has intervened in the matter. “The dispute is pending for a long time. But for the first time the Center has taken a step and intervened in the matter,” Shinde told reporters in Mumbai.

He said that the Home Minister has also sought cooperation from the opposition. On the issue of “fake” Twitter accounts, Shinde said, “During the meeting Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said about it that the Home Minister made a single statement, I would not like to get into it.” According to Shinde, his government is determined to resolve the issue.

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