Aaditya Thackeray looking for UT standing to Belagavi is ‘infantile’: Siddaramaiah

Because the winter session of the Karnataka meeting started on Monday, members of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti have been opposing it. The outfit organised a congregation in Belagavi, however the Karnataka authorities reportedly prohibited the gathering and banned leaders from Maharashtra from coming into the state.

The border subject dates again to 1957 when states have been reorganised on linguistic traces. Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants, and over 800 Marathi-speaking border villages which are at the moment part of Karnataka.

Karnataka maintains that the demarcation finished on linguistic traces as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Fee Report is remaining.

To say that Belagavi is an integral a part of the state, Karnataka constructed the ‘Suvarna Vidhana Soudha’ right here, modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the State Legislature and Secretariat in Bengaluru.