Heavy police deployment at Hirebagewadi due to Panchamasali padayatra

Heavy police have been deployed at Hirebagewadi in Karnatakas Belgaum due to the proposed Panchamasali padayatra under the leadership of Jagadguru Basava Jaya Mruthyunjaya Swamiji of the Kundalasangama PeethaAs per Additional Director General of Police ADGP Alok Kumar the Panchmasali Yatra will then take the form of a fair from Hirebagewadi to SuvarnasoudhaThe Panchamasalis a subsection of the Lingayat community in Karnataka are seeking inclusion in the 2A reservation category They also want the Centre to grant OBC status to their communityNotably tensions are already prevailing in the border areas of Belagavi on the Maharashtra Karnataka border after members of the Maharastra Ekikaran Samiti MES and Nationalist Congress Party staged a protest on Monday demanding they be allowed into BelagaviRead More Border dispute lsquoImpossible to solve 60year border row in one hourrsquoHowever Belagavi Police denied permission to MES to conduct its Maha Melava at the Vaccine Depot ground in Tilakwadi and clamped prohibited orders in Tilakwadi Police Station jurisdiction It also imposed Section 144 in the area and heavy security was deployed at the siteAmid simmering tension between Karnataka and Maharashtra over the border issue Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday sparked a fresh controversy by saying We will enter Karnataka like China has entered the countryThe senior leader of the party said that he did not need anyones permission regarding the issueLike China has entered we will enter Karnataka We dont need anyones permission We want to solve it through a discussion but Karnataka CM is igniting a fire There is a weak government in Maharashtra and is not taking any stand on it Sanjay Raut said yesterdayKarnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai on that day later hit out at Maharashtras Opposition leaders claiming that they had lost their mental balanceSpeaking to reporters CM Bommai accused Opposition members in the state Assembly of trying to politicise the border row and added that the Karnataka police is strong enough to drive back anyone attacking the stateThe Maharashtra LoPs statement of trying to attack Karnataka like China shows his immaturity He is perhaps not aware that Karnataka is in India Like the Indian army did with Chinese troops on the LAC the Karnataka police will drive back Maharashtra protesters The Kannadigas are strong enough to drive them back he saidThe border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka goes back to the implementation of the State Reorganization Act of 1956 The then Maharashtra government had demanded the readjustment of its border with KarnatakaFollowing this a fourmember committee was formed by both states The Maharashtra government had expressed willingness to transfer 260 predominantly Kannadaspeaking villages but the proposal was turned down by KarnatakaBoth governments later approached the Supreme Court to expedite the matterThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever