Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has termed the situation in the border areas of Maharashtra and Karnataka as "worrisome". Pawar on Tuesday said that time has come to take a stand after seeing what is happening there, the PTI reported.

Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, appointed for coordinating the state's border dispute with Karnataka, were earlier scheduled to meet activists of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti at Belagavi in the southern state on Tuesday and hold talks with them on the decades-old border issue, as per the PTI.