Belagavi tense as Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute triggers protests deccanchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from deccanchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Border row: Karnataka suspends bus services to Maharashtra owing to protests deccanchronicle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from deccanchronicle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As the border row between Karnataka and Maharashtra escalated, the Maharashtra Ekikarana Samithi (MES), a political outfit in Karnataka waging a battle for unification of Belagavi with Maharashtra, invited the latter s ministers to Belagavi.
The dispute is commonly known as the Belagavi or Belgaon border dispute, in which Maharashtra wishes to reclaim the Belgaum (also known as Belagavi) district and 80 other Marathi-speaking villages under the control of the southern state.