Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Dec 21: Sanjay Raut, the leader of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), caused a new controversy on Wednesday by saying, ‘ We will enter Karnataka like China has entered the country’, amid growing animosity between Karnataka and Maharashtra over the border problem.
The party’s senior leader declared that he didn’t require anyone’s permission with relation to the matter.
“Like China has entered, we will enter (Karnataka). We don’t need anyone’s permission. We want to solve it through a discussion but Karnataka CM is igniting a fire. There is a weak government in Maharashtra and is not taking any stand on it,” he said.
The leader’s remarks were made at a time when tensions between Maharashtra and Karnataka over a long-running border dispute were at an all-time high. The Supreme Court has also heard the case.
The government of Eknath Shinde is getting flak for it. The matter has also been brought up by the opposition during the Maharashtra Assembly’s current winter session.
After members of the Maharastra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) and Nationalist Congress Party staged a protest on Monday demanding they be allowed into Belagavi, tension persisted in the border regions of Belagavi on the Maharashtra Karnataka border.
Belagavi Police forbade MES from holding its Maha Melava on the grounds of the Vaccine Depot at Tilakwadi and enacted forbidden orders within the jurisdiction of the Tilakwadi Police Station.
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On today’s first day of the Winter Session of the Karnataka Assembly, Section 144 has been implemented in the region, and substantial security has been deployed near the location of the MES convention.
The State Reorganization Act of 1956’s implementation was the beginning of the Maharashtra-Karnataka border conflict. The border between Maharashtra and Karnataka had to be readjusted, according to then-governing Maharashtra.
