Karnataka To Hold Special Assembly Session At Disputed Belagavi Tomorrow
NDTV
The Karnataka Assembly session will begin at 11 am at the 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha', modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of legislature in Bengaluru.
Karnataka will hold a symbolic session at its second assembly house in Belagavi tomorrow, amid the Centre's efforts to enforce law and order and establish peace in the disputed Maharashtra-Karnataka border area. The session will begin at 11 am at the 'Suvarna Vidhana Soudha', modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of legislature in Bengaluru.
Karnataka had built a second assembly at Belagavi -- an area that's at the heart of the border row with Maharashtra. An assembly session is held there once a year to assert Karnataka's claims to the Marathi speaking area, which got included in Karnataka in 1956 during the reorganisation of states on linguistic lines.
Belagavi was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency and its inclusion in Karnataka had upset Maharashtra. The resulting feud is continuing till date. A case is pending in the Supreme Court.
Over the last weeks, trucks from Maharashtra have been attacked in Karnataka and buses of the southern state have been defaced by workers of the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena.
