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Border Dispute Persists Between Karnataka & Maharashtra States

© AFP 2023 MANJUNATH KIRANPolice personnel stand in front of the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore on March 15, 2022, after the court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms, weeks after the edict stoked violent protests and renewed fears of discrimination against the country's Muslim minority.
Police personnel stand in front of the Karnataka High Court in Bangalore on March 15, 2022, after the court upheld a local ban on the hijab in classrooms, weeks after the edict stoked violent protests and renewed fears of discrimination against the country's Muslim minority. - Sputnik India, 1920, 19.12.2022
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In a new development of the seven-decade-old dispute, people in Maharashtra protested on Monday demanding that Karnataka's Belagavi district be handed over.
Tensions prevailed in Belagavi, a border district in India's Karnataka state, on Monday after nearly 300 members of the Shiv Sena party were prevented from crossing the border with Maharashtra.
Hundreds of people from Maharashtra, including the Nationalist Congress Party, Shiv Sena, and Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES), an organization, planned an event in Tilakwadi city in Belagavi.
However, Karnataka police denied them entry, which prompted a protest at the Kognoli toll plaza near the border between the two states.
© Photo : Twitter / Protest At BelagaviMaharashtra's Politicians Stopped From Entering Karnataka
Maharashtra's Politicians Stopped From Entering Karnataka - Sputnik India, 1920, 19.12.2022
Maharashtra's Politicians Stopped From Entering Karnataka

What Is the Border Dispute About?

Since the formation of Maharashtra in 1960, the state has been insisting that 865 villages, including Belgaum (now Belagavi), Karwar and Nippani -- that are currently in Karnataka -- be handed over to Maharashtra on linguistic grounds.
Most Belagavi residents speak Marathi, a language spoken largely in Maharashtra state; therefore, they would prefer to identify as Marathi people. Natives of Karnataka state speak the Kannada language.
The issue has been sub-judiced before the Supreme Court of India.
Tensions flared up recently after a student was beaten in Belagavi for raising the Karnataka state flag; later, a pro-Kannada group held a demonstration against Karnataka.
Soon after the protest, stone-pelting incidents were reported in some parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka, with protesters defacing and attacking public transport buses in both places.
The matter soon turned political, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governs both states.
Opposition parties attacked the government and raised the matter in the ongoing state assemblies.
This is not the first time the issue of the border between the two states has been raised. As Karnataka will hold a state assembly election in 2023, political parties are raising the matter further.
On Monday, more than 61 organizations sought permission to hold protests in Belagavi, prompting the police to deploy forces on the ground, NDTV reported.
Over 4,000 law enforcement personnel, including six superintendents of police, 11 additional superintendents, 43 deputy superintendents, 95 police inspectors, and 241 police sub-inspectors, have been deployed in Belagavi.
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