Shiv Sena picks struggle with Karnataka, activists attempt to take away state flag in Belagavi

The Belagavi (Belgaum) police clamped prohibitory orders underneath Section 35 of the Karnataka police act, to be able to impede Shiv Sena activists from getting into the town. The police have been pressured to implement the ban after a number of Shiv Sena leaders created a ruckus in Belagavi overtly threatening to take away the Karnataka flag hoisted atop the company constructing and hoist a saffron color occasion flag as an alternative.
The protest which was carried out by Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES), the outfit which has at all times claimed that Belagavi belongs to Maharashtra and never Karnataka, and Shiv Sena leaders, was additionally joined by a number of pro-Maharashtra outfits and numerous Shiv Sena activists from Kohlapur who gathered in entrance of Belagavi City Corporation (BCC) and raised slogans, demanding the elimination of the flag.
Speaking in regards to the determination to impose the prohibitory orders, Police commissioner Dr Ok Tyagrajan stated that the motion was taken as a precautionary measure to keep up regulation and order within the metropolis as Shiv Sena chief Vijay Dhavane had plans of delivering a provocative speech at Belagavi, which might have disrupted the linguistic concord within the metropolis.
Owing to this, Belagavi police had made elaborate safety association in and across the Belagavi City Corporation (BCC) campus and different delicate spots within the metropolis.

Despite the orders being in place, Shiv Sena activists-led by Vijay Dhavane tried to forcefully make their approach into Belagavi via the Karnataka border close to Shinoli village. This led to a confrontation between the Shiv Sena activists and the Belagavi police within the Kohlapur district round 20 km away from the town of Belagavi.
Shiv Sena protests in Belagavi over elimination of Shivaji statue
This is, nonetheless, not the primary time Shiv Sena activists have created a ruckus within the metropolis. Last yr, Shiv Sena occasion staff had staged a protest towards with effigies of Karnataka CM Yediyurappa over the elimination of a Shivaji statue in Belgaum’s Mangutti village.
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray likens Belagavi to PoK
Earlier, Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, who has usually raked up the border situation within the identify of Marathi language and tradition, had additionally stirred an issue after likening Belagavi to ‘Pakistan occupied Kashmir’ (PoK).
On December 20, in a weird remark, Uddhav Thackeray stated: “Like PoK, there was a Karnataka-occupied Maharashtra. People in Belgaum are not only Hindus but also Marathi-speaking people and wanted to be part of Maharashtra. However, they are facing oppression from the BJP-led government in Karnataka. Even for speaking the truth, the Belgaum mayor was booked for treason,” he stated within the Assembly”. The Maharashtra Chief Minister made the Karnataka remark whereas referring to the Citizenship Amendment Act.
The Karnataka-Maharashtra border situation
The Karnataka-Maharashtra border points return to as many as 50 years. It includes a set of greater than 800 villages together with Belagavi district being claimed by Maharashtra as part of the state on linguistic grounds. Actually, Belagavi district, which was beforehand part of the Bombay presidency was given to Karnataka after independence. 
While a number of Maharashtra leaders together with Senapati Bapat have fought to regain Belgaum, a government-appointed fee fashioned in October 1966, named Mahajan Commission underneath former Chief Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan had in August 1967 awarded Maharashtra 264 villages together with Nandagad, Nippani Khanapur, however let Karnataka preserve Belagavi (Belgaum), whereas Kasargod went to Kerala.
Though the then Maharashtra authorities vociferously rejected the suggestions terming it biased and illogical, the state of Karnataka accepted it and needed it to be applied. However, the matter remained unresolved because the Central Government left it open.
Later in 2005, the Maharashtra authorities filed a petition within the Supreme Court staking declare over Belgaum. The Supreme Court started its listening to on Maharashtra’s petition on 17 January 2007 and continues to be being heard within the apex courtroom.
Last yr after the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities was fashioned in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray appointed ministers Chhagan Bhujbal and Eknath Shinde as coordinators to supervise the state’s efforts to expedite the case associated to the border dispute.