We will enter Karnataka like China entered India: Sanjay Raut
The Hindu
Shiv Sena leader censures Maharashtra CM for not taking action on boundary row; Minister Desai says Maharashtra will have to rethink water supply to Karnataka if comments are not stopped
The Maharashtra-Karnataka border cauldron was kept boiling with Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday censuring Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s alleged “failure” to take any stance on Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s continuing “verbal aggression”, remarking that the opposition could enter Karnataka in the manner in which China has entered Indian territory.
“The BJP-led Central government in Delhi keeps saying that it will not cede an inch of land to China. But China keeps entering Indian territory. Like China, even we will enter the [disputed] border areas of Karnataka…we do not need anyone’s permission. But this is a united country and we want to keep the peace. Karnataka’s CM is deliberately stoking the fumes of this controversy because he is aware that Maharashtra has an extremely weak government,” alleged Mr. Raut, a Rajya Sabha MP.
His remarks came in the wake of the Bommai government’s stance to pass a resolution in the Karnataka Legislature “that not even an inch of land” would be given to the neighbouring State of Maharashtra.
Mr. Raut further questioned whether Delhi had silenced the lips of both Chief Minister Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who had recently met with Home Minister Amit Shah after the latter sought to intervene in the ongoing dispute.
“What is your [Shinde-Fadnavis’] compulsion that you cannot speak? Has Delhi given you an injection that you people should not speak on this matter? Mr. Bommai says he will not give an inch of land [alluding to Belagavi which has a significant Marathi-speaking populace]? Will our CM give him a suitable answer?” Mr. Raut said, taunting Mr. Shinde.
He said if the ruling dispensation refused to speak on the border issue, then there were enough and more leaders and people in Maharashtra who were more than willing to stage protest rallies in the border districts of Belagavi — a focal point in the border row that has been festering since 1956.
Mr. Raut said that despite the border issue being nearly 70 years old, the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka used to speak to each with respect in the past.
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