After Sena activists attacked buses last evening, Maharashtra has, as a precautionary measure, suspended bus services to Belgaum.
The Chief Minister, who held a meeting with Congress MLAs, said he would ask the Prime Minister to consider the demand that Marathi speaking areas of Belgaum be made a union territory
On Monday, there were street demonstrations against a Supreme Court order allowing the Maharashtra government to file a fresh plea on including Belgaum in Maharashtra.
For years there has been a boundary dispute between Karnataka and Maharashtra over Belgaum.
Last week, the Centre, in its affidavit, rejected Maharashtra’s claim saying language can’t be the only criterion for deciding state boundaries.
Maharashtra had called the Centre’s affidavit discriminatory against Marathi speaking people.
Its right to declare Belgaum and other disputed areas as Union Territories. These villages are facing unjustice since the states were formed by pushing them in a state which language they didnt understand. Yet from last 50 years they are forced upon the unknown language. All the demands are crushed by the Karnatak by use of force.
Only solution is to RETURN THESE VILLAGES to Maharashtra, or Karnataka should DECLARE MARATHI AS 2ND OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of state, so it can be officially used in Belgaum, as the district is already given vice-capital status.