State committed towards justice for Marathi-speaking people at borders

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, at the joint session of the state legislature on Monday, said that the state government is committed to serve justice to the Marathi-speaking people of the border areas. “My government has strongly presented the case of Maharashtra in the original suit filed in the Supreme Court on Maharashtra-Karnataka Border Dispute and, henceforth, will continue to present the same. My government expresses its commitment to the Marathi-speaking people of the border areas and is committed to get them justice. It has recently published a volume titled Maharashtra Karnataka Seemavaad : Sangharsh Aaani Sankalp to comprehensively present the issue. Copies of this book will be made available to the members of the state legislature in this session,” said Governor.

The governor’s statement came days after a war of words broke between the political leaders from the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Karnataka on the long pending border dispute. It all started after Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had proposed that areas dominated by Marathi-speaking people on the state’s border with Karnataka should be declared as a union territory till the Supreme Court gives its final verdict on the issue.