{"id":89006,"date":"2022-11-25T06:50:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=89006"},"modified":"2022-11-25T06:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T01:20:17","slug":"karnataka-maharashtra-border-row-bjp-vs-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/karnataka-maharashtra-border-row-bjp-vs-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka-Maharashtra Border Row, BJP vs BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bengaluru: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP faces a tricky situation as the decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra, both ruled by the party now, is back under the spotlight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As both state governments try to pander to regional sentiments, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai have exchanged strong words on the sensitive political issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Fadnavis yesterday said no village of Maharashtra has sought a merger with Karnataka recently, and added that there is no question of any border village “going anywhere”. In a sharp retort, Mr Bommai termed the Maharashtra BJP leader’s remark “provocative” and said “his dream will never come true”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that Karnataka’s demand is that areas such as Maharashtra’s Solapur, which have a high number of Kannada speakers, should be made part of Karnataka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, Mr Bommai had claimed that some village panchayats in Maharashtra’s Sangli district had passed a resolution in the past, seeking a merger with Karnataka when they were facing a water crisis. The Karnataka government had planned schemes to help them and his government was seriously considering their merger demand, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to questions on the Karnataka Chief Minister’s remarks, Mr Fadnavis said these villages had passed a resolution on water crisis back in 2012, but there have been no recent developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP leader said that the previous Maharashtra government under him had entered into an agreement with Karnataka to sort out the issue. A water supply scheme was also chalked out for these villages, he said. “We are now going to approve that scheme. Perhaps because of Covid, the previous (Uddhav Thackeray-led) government could not approve it,” Mr Fadnavis added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The BJP returned to power in June along with a Shiv Sena faction led by Eknath Shinde — now Chief Minister — that rebelled against Thackeray’s leadership over his alliance with the Congress and the Sharad Pawar’s NCP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Karnataka claims Kannada-speaking areas close to the state border, Maharashtra has been pushing for a resolution to the dispute over Belgaum district — also called Belagavi — and other Marathi majority areas in Karnataka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The matter reached the Supreme Court in 2004 when the then Maharashtra government claimed Belagavi city and 865 villages. The case is pending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, a 19-member committee comprising leaders from all Maharashtra parties met and decided to request the Supreme Court to speed up the hearing. The Eknath Shinde-led government also formed a committee with two senior ministers to monitor The Karnataka Chief Minister has said that the state government has formed a formidable legal team to deal with the border dispute when it comes up in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bengaluru:  The BJP faces a tricky situation as the decades-old border dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra, both ruled by the party now, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89008,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89006\/revisions\/89008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}