Karnataka-Maharashtra Border row | Bommai announces all-party meeting next week
The HinduAs the verbal altercation between the BJP governments in Karnataka and Maharashtra over the decades-old Karnataka-Maharashtra border issue continued on Thursday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that he would be convening an all-party meeting next week to discuss the issue comprehensively. Mr. Bommai pointed out that Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde was quoted in the media saying that he was willing to have a discussion to solve the matter. Resolution of GPs Mr. Bommai had cited resolutions of predominantly Kannada speaking gram panchayats in Jat taluk of Sangli district that had said in 2012 they were readu fpr merger with Karnataka over water issues. Mr. Bommai said that the Karnataka-Maharashtra border issue, in fact, “does not exist” after the State Reorganisation Act, 1956, came into force.