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Maharashtra assembly supports
Marathi-speaking people of Karnataka
Friday April 13, 2012 02:12:23 AM,
IANS
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Mumbai: In a gesture of solidarity with the
Marathi-speaking people of Belgaum in Karnataka who have staged a
sit-in agitation in the city, the Maharashtra legislative assembly
was adjourned for 90 minutes here Thursday.
The sit-in agitation has been organised to draw the people's
attention to the ongoing 56-year-old struggle demanding merger of
Marathi-speaking areas in the Karnataka border districts with
Maharashtra.
Raising the issue, senior PWP legislator Ganpatrao Deshmukh said
the long-pending issue of the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary
eludes a solution.
Hence, it was time for the people of this state to unitedly rise
and express solidarity with the Marathi-speaking people who are
fighting the Karnataka government's atrocities against the
linguistic minorities in the border regions of the neighbouring
state.
Deshmukh, however, made it clear that he was not opposed to the
state government's decision to give two TMC water from
Maharashtra's Doodhganga and Warana dams to Karnataka.
His plea found support among various ruling and opposition
legislators, including Industry Minister Narayan Rane of Congress,
Jitendra Awhad of Nationalist Congress Party, Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena's Bala Nandgaonkar and Bharatiya Janata Party's
Girish Bapat.
Awhad said the Maharashtra government should have sought
assurances on the boundary dispute before agreeing to give water
to Karnataka.
Nangaonkar said MNS chief Raj Thackeray had met BJP President
Nitin Gadkari and appealed to him to prevail upon his (BJP)
party's government in Karnataka to respect the sentiments of the
linguistic minorities like Marathis.
On his part, Bapat pointed out that though his party ruled
Karnataka, the Maharashtra unit would always support the
Marathi-speaking people in that state and oppose any kinds of
atrocities.
Assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil said that though Maharashtra
has supported the struggle of the Marathi-speaking people unitedly,
it has not met with success and their rights are not protected in
Karnataka.
"Last December, the Maharashtra Legislature passed a unanimous
resolution demanding President's rule in Belgaum and other
disputed border areas till the outcome of the case in the Supreme
Court. The resolution had also called upon the centre to
re-instate the dissolved Belgaum Municipal Corporation, but
nothing happened," Walse-Patil said.
The members also readily agreed to a proposal to adjourn the
house, to enable all legislators visit Azad Maidan, south Mumbai,
and meet the people from Belgaum who are staging the sit-in
agitation there.
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