Maha-K'taka border row: Incidents of violence can't take place without Centre's support, says Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday targeted the Centre and claimed incidents of violence amid the raging border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka cannot take place without Delhis supportRaut also hit out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde saying the state appeared weak to counter such attacksAmid the rising tension between the two states over the border row Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and his Maharashtra counterpart Shinde spoke to each other over the phone on Tuesday night and agreed there should be peace and law and order should be maintained on both sidesMaharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis also spoke to Bommai on Tuesday over stone pelting on vehicles from Maharashtra entering the southern state and said he will also take up the matter with the CentreA Maharashtra ministerial delegations proposed visit to Belagavi in Karnataka did not materialise on Tuesday amid the simmering tension over the boundary row while Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation suspended bus services to the southern state citing a police advisoryAlso Read Border row Workers of Uddhav Thackerayled Shiv Sena MNS paint Karnataka buses with Jai Maharashtra graffiti in Pune districtRajya Sabha member Raut in a tweet on Wednesday targeted the central government by claiming that Marathi people and vehicles from Maharashtra cannot be attacked in Belagavi without Delhis supportWorkers of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti have been arrested The game of ending Marathi selfesteem by breaking its backbone has started The attacks in Belagavi are part of the same conspiracy Get up Marathas get up Raut saidChief Minister Eknath Shinde says he has created a revolution he pointed outWhat kind of a revolution it is can be seen in the manner how the state is looking weak to counter these attacks Raut saidThose who quit the Shiv Sena saying they have selfrespect have now decided to stay silent he tweetedLater talking to reporters Raut said Declare Belagavi a Union TerritoryPeople are ready to go to Belagavi under the leadership of Nationalist Congress Party NCP president Sharad Pawar he saidThe NCP is an ally of the Shiv Sena UBT and both the parties along with the Congress were in power in Maharashtra before their government collapsed in June this year following a rebellion led by ShindeShinde later formed government with the support of the Bharatiya Janata Party BJPRaut said iquestWe dont know what is happening There is a BJP government at the Centre there is a BJP government in Karnataka and also in MaharashtraThe ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai have backed out from going to Belagavi we will give them protection and march with them he saidThe border issue dates back to 1957 after the reorganisation of states on linguistic linesMaharashtra laid claim to Belagavi which was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency as it has a sizable Marathispeaking population It also laid claim to 814 Marathispeaking villages which are currently part of the southern stateKarnataka however considers the demarcation done on linguistic lines as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Commission Report as finalThis 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