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Centre forms 6-member team to discuss Maharashtra-Karnataka border row; Amit Shah holds talks with CMs | India News


NEW DELHI: Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that the ministers of maharashtra and Karnataka agreed to resolve the ongoing border dispute in a “constitutional manner”.
Shah’s comments came after his meeting with Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai about the dispute currently being heard in court. Supreme Court.
“The meeting between Maharashtra and Karnataka on the border issue was held in a positive atmosphere today. With a positive approach, the CMs of both states agreed that a suitable solution should be reached. with the constitution,” Shah said after the talks.
He said the Center has formed a six-member group with ministers from both Maharashtra and Karnataka to deal with boundary issues.
He also urged opposition parties in both states not to politicize the issue.
“We should wait for the outcome of the deliberations of the commission established to deal with this matter and the decision of the Supreme Court. I am confident that NCPParliament and Uddhav Thackeray’s faction will cooperate,” the interior minister said.
The Shah’s initiative came after a delegation of MPs from Maharashtra sought his intervention. This is the first time the Center has intervened in this matter.
The border row escalated last week, with vehicles on both sides being targeted, leaders from both states weighing in, and pro-Kannada and Marathi activists being detained by police. detained in a tense atmosphere in the border district of Belagavi.
Afterwards, the ministers of Karnataka and Maharashtra spoke to each other by phone and agreed that there should be peace, and that law and order should be maintained on both sides.
The border issue began in 1957 after the reorganization of countries along linguistic lines.
Maharashtra claims Belagavi, which was part of the former Bombay Presidential Palace, as it has a large Marathi-speaking population. It also claims 814 Marathi-speaking villages that are now part of Karnataka.
Karnataka maintained that the demarcation made on linguistic lines under the Reorganization of the States Act and the Mahajan Commission Report of 1967 was final.
And, to affirm that Belagavi is an integral part of the state, Karnataka constructed ‘Suvarna Vidhana Soudha’, modeled after Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the legislature in Bengaluru, and a session of the legislature. Laws are held there every year.
The winter session of the legislature is scheduled to be held in Belagavi from December 19 to 30.
(With input from agencies)

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