No village from Maharashtra will go anywhere: DyCM Fadnavis on Bommai's statement

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said no village in Maharashtra has sought merger with Karnataka recently and there is no question of any border village going anywhereKarnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai had claimed on Tuesday that some village panchayats in Jat taluka of Maharashtras Sangli district had passed a resolution in the past seeking to merge with Karnataka when they were facing a severe water crisisThe Karnataka government had devised schemes to help them by providing water and his government was seriously considering the proposal of Jat villages he saidThese villages had introduced a resolution on the issue of water scarcity in 2012 Presently none of the villages have introduced any resolution Fadnavis told reporters hereWhen he became Maharashtra chief minister his government entered into an agreement with Karnataka to sort out the water issue he saidA water supply scheme was chalked out for the Jat villages when Girish Mahajan was water resources minister in his cabinet the BJP leader addedWe are now going to give approval to that scheme Perhaps because of Covid the previous Uddhav Thackerayled government could not approve it Fadnavis addedAlso Read Delhi court directs Tihar Jail to provide Satyendar Jain food as per rulesPresently none of the villages have raised such demand of merger with Karnataka The demand is of 2012 he saidNot a single village of Maharashtra will go anywhere Fadnavis stressedEarlier in the day Maharashtra minister Shambhuraj Desai said the Karnataka chief ministers claims should not be taken seriouslyThe decadesold border dispute over Belagavi earlier Belgaum between Maharashtra and Karnataka is in news again due to recent statements from both sidesOn Monday Bommai had said he had formed a formidable legal team of senior lawyers to deal with the border dispute when it comes up in the Supreme CourtOn Tuesday the Maharashtra government appointed Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai as nodal ministers to coordinate with the states legal team regarding the pending court caseTalking to reporters here Desai said As Maharashtra has reconstituted its team to take forward the Karnataka border dispute in the Supreme Court Bommai has come up with some ridiculous old demand It should not be taken seriously The villages in Jat tehsil had reportedly passed a resolution more than a decade back to pressurise the then state government to address their demand of water supply from the Krishna riverThere is no such official documentation or resolution available with the Maharashtra government he addedAs per my information the Maharashtra government has already cleared a proposal to supply water for irrigation to the arid parts of Jat tehsil The cost of the project is around Rs 1200 crore A technical scrutiny of the project is underway It means these villages will definitely get water from Maharashtra Desai saidThe border dispute dates back to the 1960s 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 80 Marathispeaking villages which are currently part of KarnatakaThis 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