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BELAGAVI: Amid the continued tussle between leaders of Karnataka and Maharashtra over the simmering boundary dispute between the 2 neighbouring states, citizens of 40 villages in Jath taluk in Sangli district on Maharashtra border, most commonly inhabited by means of Kannadigas, have expressed their want to look their spaces merged with Karnataka. Slamming the Maharashtra executive for neglecting their villages for many years and depriving them of elementary facilities like roads and irrigation amenities, the villagers stated they would favor to be a part of Karnataka if the Maharashtra executive continues to forget them.
President of Umadi Niravari Horata Samiti in Jath taluk, Sunil Potdar stated, “We’ve got been challenging elementary facilities in our villages in Jath taluk for the previous decade, however in useless. Our calls for have fallen on deaf ears. It’s time that our villages are merged with Karnataka.’’ He welcomed the hot remark of Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai who subsidized the call for of Kannadigas for merger in their area, together with Solapur and Akkalkot, with Karnataka.
A distinguished native chief Shambu Mamadapur, additionally president of the Danamma Temple Believe of Guddapur in Jath taluk, stated the villagers of Guddapur were challenging the advance of roads for a number of many years however the Maharashtra executive has no longer performed the rest about it.
Other folks in these kinds of 40 villages are dissatisfied that the federal government has omitted Kannada colleges and stated that it was once the Karnataka executive which sanctioned Rs 15 crore for the advance of colleges within the border spaces, but even so giving grants for the development of Kannada Bhavan in recent times. The villagers stated the roads resulting in Danamma Temple, some of the well-known non secular puts within the area, are pathetic whilst greater than 10,000 devotees consult with the shrine on a regular basis.
Kannadigas in majority in 40 villages
No less than one lakh devotees throng the temple on Kartik Amavasya and 95 according to cent of them are Kannadigas, they stated, including that no longer even a unmarried paisa has been launched by means of the Maharashtra executive for the good thing about devotees. Then again, the Karnataka executive launched Rs 12 crore to the temple accept as true with within the ultimate 8 years, the villagers stated.
The entire 40 villages, that are predominantly occupied by means of Kannadigas in Jath taluk, are positioned with reference to Athani taluk within the border spaces. Consistent with assets, Kannadigas shape greater than 90% of the inhabitants in those 40 villages. The folk of all of the 40 villages organised a Gram Sabha at Guddapur in 2012 and recommended the Maharashtra executive to increase their space or let them merge with Karnataka. The villagers had additionally staged a protest on this connection in entrance of the DC’s administrative center in Sangli.
Famous litterateur Chandrashekhar Patil had attended the assembly at Guddapur and had instructed the villagers that he would meet Bommai and produce the information to his understand. In the meantime, a group of Karnataka Rakshna Vedike from Kagwad visited Balgaon in Jath taluk on Monday and invited Kannadigas to come back to Karnataka.
BELAGAVI: Amid the continued tussle between leaders of Karnataka and Maharashtra over the simmering boundary dispute between the 2 neighbouring states, citizens of 40 villages in Jath taluk in Sangli district on Maharashtra border, most commonly inhabited by means of Kannadigas, have expressed their want to look their spaces merged with Karnataka. Slamming the Maharashtra executive for neglecting their villages for many years and depriving them of elementary facilities like roads and irrigation amenities, the villagers stated they would favor to be a part of Karnataka if the Maharashtra executive continues to forget them.
President of Umadi Niravari Horata Samiti in Jath taluk, Sunil Potdar stated, “We’ve got been challenging elementary facilities in our villages in Jath taluk for the previous decade, however in useless. Our calls for have fallen on deaf ears. It’s time that our villages are merged with Karnataka.’’ He welcomed the hot remark of Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai who subsidized the call for of Kannadigas for merger in their area, together with Solapur and Akkalkot, with Karnataka.
A distinguished native chief Shambu Mamadapur, additionally president of the Danamma Temple Believe of Guddapur in Jath taluk, stated the villagers of Guddapur were challenging the advance of roads for a number of many years however the Maharashtra executive has no longer performed the rest about it.
Other folks in these kinds of 40 villages are dissatisfied that the federal government has omitted Kannada colleges and stated that it was once the Karnataka executive which sanctioned Rs 15 crore for the advance of colleges within the border spaces, but even so giving grants for the development of Kannada Bhavan in recent times. The villagers stated the roads resulting in Danamma Temple, some of the well-known non secular puts within the area, are pathetic whilst greater than 10,000 devotees consult with the shrine on a regular basis.
Kannadigas in majority in 40 villages
No less than one lakh devotees throng the temple on Kartik Amavasya and 95 according to cent of them are Kannadigas, they stated, including that no longer even a unmarried paisa has been launched by means of the Maharashtra executive for the good thing about devotees. Then again, the Karnataka executive launched Rs 12 crore to the temple accept as true with within the ultimate 8 years, the villagers stated.
The entire 40 villages, that are predominantly occupied by means of Kannadigas in Jath taluk, are positioned with reference to Athani taluk within the border spaces. Consistent with assets, Kannadigas shape greater than 90% of the inhabitants in those 40 villages. The folk of all of the 40 villages organised a Gram Sabha at Guddapur in 2012 and recommended the Maharashtra executive to increase their space or let them merge with Karnataka. The villagers had additionally staged a protest on this connection in entrance of the DC’s administrative center in Sangli.
Famous litterateur Chandrashekhar Patil had attended the assembly at Guddapur and had instructed the villagers that he would meet Bommai and produce the information to his understand. In the meantime, a group of Karnataka Rakshna Vedike from Kagwad visited Balgaon in Jath taluk on Monday and invited Kannadigas to come back to Karnataka.
