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All-party meet on Maha-Karnataka boundary row soon

An all-party meeting is expected to be held soon to chalk out strategy over the long-pending Maharashtra- Karnataka boundary row, said a leader of Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti.

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MUMBAI: An all-party meeting is expected to be held soon to chalk out a strategy over the long-pending Maharashtra- Karnataka boundary row, a leader of the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti has said.

The Samiti leader Karan Thakur's statement came after Maharashtra suffered a setback recently in the long-pending boundary dispute, with the Centre virtually siding with Karnataka by telling the Supreme Court that a suit filed by the Vilasrao Deshmukh government was "not maintainable in law".

The Samiti has been fighting for the merger of Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka with the neighbouring state.

In an affidavit filed in the apex court, the Union Home Ministry has said the prayers of Maharashtra "are not liable to be granted".

The Centre's stance over the issue has come as a disappointment for Marathi-speaking people of Belgaum and other border areas in Karnataka, Thakur said.

"If Bellary can be given from Andhra to Karnataka by following the language formula, why can't Belgaum be made a part of Maharashtra?" he asked.

The Centre has taken the view that the suit filed by Maharashtra, after protracted efforts to resolve the boundary row with Karnatka failed, was "liable to be returned" as it does "not disclose a cause of action".

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