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    Battle for Belagavi

    Dec 03, 2022 4 minutes
    “PANCHAYATS IN JAT TALUK HAD PASSED RESOLUTION TO JOIN KARNATAKA. WE’RE SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING IT”
    BASAVARAJ BOMMAI
    Chief Minister, Karnataka
    “THE STATE GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED TO GET JUSTICE FOR EVERY BROTHER IN THE BORDER AREAS”
    EKNATH SHINDE
    Chief Minister, Maharashtra

    s disputes between states go, the row over Belagavi (formerly Belgaum) has a life of its own. Simmering for decades, it periodically froths over—like it did last December and the year before, with many iterations going back in time to India’s state reorganisation on linguistic grounds beginning in the mid-1950s. On all occasions, tensions had risen temporarily in the border district that belongs to Karnataka but which Maharashtra has, for decades, claimed as its territory—on the emotive grounds

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