Lok Sabha MP was prevented from going to Belgaum, says Ajit Pawar, ‘how can elected representatives be stopped,’ he asked
Nagpur: The Maharashtra-Karnataka border row figured on the first day of the Winter Session of the State Legislature in Nagpur with Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar raising the issue. Attacking the Government, Pawar demanded the Government to make public details of the meeting the Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis held with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the issue.
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Ajit Pawar claimed in the House that Lok Sabha MP was stopped from going to Belgaum by the Karnataka Government. “This has happened despite a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah. How can elected representatives be stopped from going anywhere?” Pawar said. The district administration had banned Shiv Sena MP Dhairyasheel Mane from entering Belagavi.
Mane, a Lok Sabha member from Hatkanangale constituency in Maharashtra, had sought permission to take part in a protest to be held by Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MMES) in Belagavi on Monday.
In his reply, the Chief Minister Shinde said that the border row issue should not be politicised. “It is the first time that the Union Home Minister intervened in the matter and we put our stand very clearly.
The border row – a decades-old issue – has yet again been brought up even as the BJP is ruling in both the States and the Centre, bringing the party under attack from the Opposition. Earlier this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held meetings with Chief Ministers of both the states – Basavraj Bommai and Eknath Shinde – on the matter. No state will stake claim on the contested territory, Amit Shah said after the meeting, stressing that a six-member ministerial team, comprising three ministers each from Maharashtra and Karnataka, will sit-together to discuss the matter.
The Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar sought that details of the meeting be made public. “Karnataka and Maharashtra CMs’ talks with Amit Shah should be made public. We’ll support it if the state government brings proposals on the border issues,” Pawar said.
The border row remained in focus as the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) as the leaders of the three parties marched towards Belagavi, in Karnataka on Monday morning. Karnataka’s Assembly session is scheduled to start on Monday at Belagavi, which is also the second capital of the neighbouring state.
The Winter Session of the Maharashtra Legislature began on Monday in Nagpur at a time when the Eknath Shinde-led government has been on the receiving end over the border dispute with Karnataka and the BJP has been dealing with Governor Koshyari’s ‘derogatory’ remarks on Shivaji.
