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  • On 5 key ballot guarantees | Sidda assists in keeping his phrase

    The brand new Congress executive has delivered the primary of its ‘5 ballot promises’. Provisioning for the massive outgos and navigating the fiscal tightrope comes subsequent

    ISSUE DATE: Jun 26, 2023 | UPDATED: Jun 16, 2023 22:27 IST

    THE RIDE: CM Siddaramaiah and deputy CM D.Ok. Shivakumar flag off the ‘Shakti’ unfastened bus shuttle for girls in Bengaluru, June 11. (Picture: Jithendra M)

    Previous this week, Karnataka leader minister Siddaramaiah hopped directly to a bus at Vidhana Soudha, the enforcing secretariat construction in Bengaluru, to flag off a scheme that permits girls to shuttle totally free on state shipping buses around the state. This used to be the primary of the Congress’s 5 pre-poll promises to roll out and the CM famous with delight that his executive had made just right on its promise inside 22 days of taking price.

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    Jun 16, 2023

  • NCP asks Twitter CEO Elon Musk to assist get to the bottom of Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute

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    MUMBAI: In what may well be noticed as an fun flip of occasions, NCP state president Jayant Patil on Monday asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk to assist get to the bottom of the continuing border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka by way of clarifying whether or not Karnataka Leader Minister Basvaraj Bommai had tweeted arguable tweets in regards to the border factor from his Twitter account or now not.

    Elon Musk on Monday introduced a ballot at the micro-blogging website online asking whether or not he must keep or down as Twitter’s CEO and added that he would abide by way of the ballot’s effects.

    Patil tagged Musk’s tweet and requested the latter to get to the bottom of the problem over if Bommai had allegedly tweeted anything else that might escalate additional tensions on the border.  “However earlier than you step down as Twitter head, you should give the results of who actually tweeted from Karnataka CM Basvaraj Bommai’s social media account,” Patil requested Elon Musk.

    The opposition alleged that Bommai had posted a chain of tweets over the Maharashtra and Karnataka border resulting in a tumultuous state of affairs on the border. Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde had additionally complained to Union House Minister Amit Shah towards Karnataka CM, however Shah denied the accusations.

    Bommai in a contemporary assembly with Amit Shah and Eknath Shinde denied that he had now not tweeted anything else that may flare up the border dispute. Bommai claimed anyone had hacked his social media account and printed the tweets in query. Following the assembly, the House Minister stated the authenticity of the tweets will likely be verified and motion will likely be taken towards the ones concerned.

    In the meantime, the Maharashtra state meeting witnessed an uproar over the border dispute. Opposition events alleged that Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde had failed to offer protection to the pastime of the Maharashtra other people.

    Maharashtra’s Chief of Opposition Ajit Pawar stated that elected representatives like MLAs and MPs were barred from getting into Karnataka. Pawar stated the Karnataka CM issued an order to arrest the Maharashtra leaders who entered Karnataka, in spite of the latter agreeing to cooperate over the border tussle following a contemporary assembly with Amit Shah.

    MUMBAI: In what may well be noticed as an fun flip of occasions, NCP state president Jayant Patil on Monday asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk to assist get to the bottom of the continuing border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka by way of clarifying whether or not Karnataka Leader Minister Basvaraj Bommai had tweeted arguable tweets in regards to the border factor from his Twitter account or now not.

    Elon Musk on Monday introduced a ballot at the micro-blogging website online asking whether or not he must keep or down as Twitter’s CEO and added that he would abide by way of the ballot’s effects.

    Patil tagged Musk’s tweet and requested the latter to get to the bottom of the problem over if Bommai had allegedly tweeted anything else that might escalate additional tensions on the border.  “However earlier than you step down as Twitter head, you should give the results of who actually tweeted from Karnataka CM Basvaraj Bommai’s social media account,” Patil requested Elon Musk.

    The opposition alleged that Bommai had posted a chain of tweets over the Maharashtra and Karnataka border resulting in a tumultuous state of affairs on the border. Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde had additionally complained to Union House Minister Amit Shah towards Karnataka CM, however Shah denied the accusations.

    Bommai in a contemporary assembly with Amit Shah and Eknath Shinde denied that he had now not tweeted anything else that may flare up the border dispute. Bommai claimed anyone had hacked his social media account and printed the tweets in query. Following the assembly, the House Minister stated the authenticity of the tweets will likely be verified and motion will likely be taken towards the ones concerned.

    In the meantime, the Maharashtra state meeting witnessed an uproar over the border dispute. Opposition events alleged that Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde had failed to offer protection to the pastime of the Maharashtra other people.

    Maharashtra’s Chief of Opposition Ajit Pawar stated that elected representatives like MLAs and MPs were barred from getting into Karnataka. Pawar stated the Karnataka CM issued an order to arrest the Maharashtra leaders who entered Karnataka, in spite of the latter agreeing to cooperate over the border tussle following a contemporary assembly with Amit Shah.

  • Border row: Assembly in Delhi accomplished not anything, favoured Karnataka, claims Uddhav

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday stated that not anything got here out of Union House Minister Amit Shah’s assembly with the manager ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute.

    Talking at a press convention after a gathering together with his Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Congress and NCP, he additionally stated it was once tricky to consider that some tweets from the verified care for of Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai at the factor weren’t in truth posted through him.

    “What was once accomplished through the previous day’s assembly of Union house minister Amit Shah with leader ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka? It was once rubbing of salt into our wounds. As all the time, the deliberations favoured Karnataka,” Thackeray stated.

    The previous leader minister demanded to understand why Karnataka holds legislature periods in Belagavi (the north Karnataka town which is the primary bone of competition between the 2 states) and accorded it the standing of 2d capital when the border dispute was once ahead of the Ultimate Court docket.

    ”Belagavi, Karwar, Nipani and different surrounding spaces (of northern Karnataka) need to enroll in Maharashtra. Why are there no solutions to this call for,” he requested.

    He additionally sought to understand why the Karnataka leader minister waited until Wednesday’s assembly in Delhi to elucidate that some ‘faux’ Twitter handles have been posting tweets in his title that fuelled tensions.

    “What motion has been taken until now? Is it plausible?” he requested.

    The MVA assembly was once attended through NCP chief Ajit Pawar and Congress chief Prithviraj Chavan.

    On a protest march organised through the MVA on Saturday in Mumbai, Thackeray stated “all those that love Maharashtra will have to sign up for it.”

    READ HERE | Karnataka, Maharashtra arm-wrestle over border spaces

    Problems such because the border dispute with Karnataka, `insult’ of Maharashtrian icons and commercial tasks going to different states can be highlighted throughout the march which can get started from J J Flyover and finish at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in south Mumbai, Pawar and Thackeray stated.

    Union minister Shah met the manager ministers of the 2 states on Wednesday after violence flared up within the border area the place Maharashtra has staked declare on 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka but even so Belagavi.

    Of past due, Karnataka too has staked claims to south Solapur and Akkalkote areas of Maharashtra, that experience a sizeable Kannada talking inhabitants.

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday stated that not anything got here out of Union House Minister Amit Shah’s assembly with the manager ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute.

    Talking at a press convention after a gathering together with his Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Congress and NCP, he additionally stated it was once tricky to consider that some tweets from the verified care for of Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai at the factor weren’t in truth posted through him.

    “What was once accomplished through the previous day’s assembly of Union house minister Amit Shah with leader ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka? It was once rubbing of salt into our wounds. As all the time, the deliberations favoured Karnataka,” Thackeray stated.

    The previous leader minister demanded to understand why Karnataka holds legislature periods in Belagavi (the north Karnataka town which is the primary bone of competition between the 2 states) and accorded it the standing of 2d capital when the border dispute was once ahead of the Ultimate Court docket.

    ”Belagavi, Karwar, Nipani and different surrounding spaces (of northern Karnataka) need to enroll in Maharashtra. Why are there no solutions to this call for,” he requested.

    He additionally sought to understand why the Karnataka leader minister waited until Wednesday’s assembly in Delhi to elucidate that some ‘faux’ Twitter handles have been posting tweets in his title that fuelled tensions.

    “What motion has been taken until now? Is it plausible?” he requested.

    The MVA assembly was once attended through NCP chief Ajit Pawar and Congress chief Prithviraj Chavan.

    On a protest march organised through the MVA on Saturday in Mumbai, Thackeray stated “all those that love Maharashtra will have to sign up for it.”

    READ HERE | Karnataka, Maharashtra arm-wrestle over border spaces

    Problems such because the border dispute with Karnataka, `insult’ of Maharashtrian icons and commercial tasks going to different states can be highlighted throughout the march which can get started from J J Flyover and finish at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in south Mumbai, Pawar and Thackeray stated.

    Union minister Shah met the manager ministers of the 2 states on Wednesday after violence flared up within the border area the place Maharashtra has staked declare on 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka but even so Belagavi.

    Of past due, Karnataka too has staked claims to south Solapur and Akkalkote areas of Maharashtra, that experience a sizeable Kannada talking inhabitants.

  • Border row: Karnataka CM’s commentary disrespectful to Shah, made with an eye fixed on polls, says MVA

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday stated Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s commentary that the assembly between Maharashtra parliamentarians and Union House Minister Amit Shah would make no distinction to the border dispute between the 2 states presentations such feedback are pre-planned with an eye fixed on Meeting polls there.

    Senior Shiv Sena ((UBT) chief and Mumbai South Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant, who was once a part of the delegation that met Shah, stated the latter had taken critical observe of the problem and had confident he would name a gathering of the CMs of each states.

    Alternatively, Bommai’s commentary presentations he does not appreciate the Central executive, Sawant stated, including it sort of feels such feedback are pre-planned with an eye fixed on polls within the southern state, perhaps to be held within the previous a part of 2023, and has the blessings of the Centre.

    “When the topic is pending within the Very best Courtroom, Karnataka went forward and adjusted the title of Belgaum to Belagavi. It then built a legislature development there and holds a consultation of the Meeting once a year. All that is unlawful,” Sawant claimed.

    Slamming Bommai, Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration spokesperson Clyde Crasto stated, “Is not the commentary of the Karnataka CM disrespectful to the Union house minister and our nation? The BJP CM of a state brazenly passes a counter commentary associated with the House Minister of India, who may be from the BJP. Are we lacking one thing right here?”

    “Bommai was sponsored through Amit Shah. Now he’s announcing assembly Amit Shah is needless at the border factor! who’s if truth be told in price right here?! And can the Maharashtra executive now promote our villages to their BJP neighbours after promoting our initiatives to Gujarat,” Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration chief Preeti Sharma Menon tweeted.

    In a tweet on Friday, Bommai had stated his state’s stand was once “reliable” and its case within the apex courtroom was once “robust.”

    “Maharashtra delegation assembly the Union House Minister won’t make any distinction. Maharashtra has attempted this previously too. The case is within the Very best Courtroom. Our reliable case within the Very best Courtroom is robust. Our executive won’t make any compromise at the border factor,” Bommai tweeted overdue on Friday evening.

    “I’ve requested Karnataka MPs to satisfy Union House Minister Amit Shah on Monday in regards to the Karnataka Maharashtra border factor. I can even be assembly the Union House Minister quickly to tell him concerning the state’s reliable stand,” he added.
    ALSO READ | Centre to name Okay’taka & Maha CMs assembly subsequent week

    The delegation from Maharashtra had met Shah on Friday and NCP chief Amol Kolhe, who was once a part of the gang, stated the previous would meet each CMs on December 14.

    The border row had intensified previous this week with automobiles from both sides being centered, leaders from each states weighing in, and pro-Kannada and Marathi activists being detained through police amid a irritating surroundings within the border district of Belagavi.

    Following this, the Karnataka and Maharashtra CMs spoke to one another over the telephone and agreed there will have to be peace and legislation and order will have to be maintained on either side.

    The border factor dates again to 1957 after the reorganisation of states on linguistic strains.

    Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was once a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants.

    It additionally laid declare to 814 Marathi-speaking villages that are lately a part of Karnataka.

    Karnataka maintains the demarcation performed on linguistic strains as consistent with the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Fee File as ultimate.

    The dispute is pending within the Very best courtroom.

    MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Saturday stated Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s commentary that the assembly between Maharashtra parliamentarians and Union House Minister Amit Shah would make no distinction to the border dispute between the 2 states presentations such feedback are pre-planned with an eye fixed on Meeting polls there.

    Senior Shiv Sena ((UBT) chief and Mumbai South Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant, who was once a part of the delegation that met Shah, stated the latter had taken critical observe of the problem and had confident he would name a gathering of the CMs of each states.

    Alternatively, Bommai’s commentary presentations he does not appreciate the Central executive, Sawant stated, including it sort of feels such feedback are pre-planned with an eye fixed on polls within the southern state, perhaps to be held within the previous a part of 2023, and has the blessings of the Centre.

    “When the topic is pending within the Very best Courtroom, Karnataka went forward and adjusted the title of Belgaum to Belagavi. It then built a legislature development there and holds a consultation of the Meeting once a year. All that is unlawful,” Sawant claimed.

    Slamming Bommai, Nationalist Congress Birthday celebration spokesperson Clyde Crasto stated, “Is not the commentary of the Karnataka CM disrespectful to the Union house minister and our nation? The BJP CM of a state brazenly passes a counter commentary associated with the House Minister of India, who may be from the BJP. Are we lacking one thing right here?”

    “Bommai was sponsored through Amit Shah. Now he’s announcing assembly Amit Shah is needless at the border factor! who’s if truth be told in price right here?! And can the Maharashtra executive now promote our villages to their BJP neighbours after promoting our initiatives to Gujarat,” Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration chief Preeti Sharma Menon tweeted.

    In a tweet on Friday, Bommai had stated his state’s stand was once “reliable” and its case within the apex courtroom was once “robust.”

    “Maharashtra delegation assembly the Union House Minister won’t make any distinction. Maharashtra has attempted this previously too. The case is within the Very best Courtroom. Our reliable case within the Very best Courtroom is robust. Our executive won’t make any compromise at the border factor,” Bommai tweeted overdue on Friday evening.

    “I’ve requested Karnataka MPs to satisfy Union House Minister Amit Shah on Monday in regards to the Karnataka Maharashtra border factor. I can even be assembly the Union House Minister quickly to tell him concerning the state’s reliable stand,” he added.ALSO READ | Centre to name Okay’taka & Maha CMs assembly subsequent week

    The delegation from Maharashtra had met Shah on Friday and NCP chief Amol Kolhe, who was once a part of the gang, stated the previous would meet each CMs on December 14.

    The border row had intensified previous this week with automobiles from both sides being centered, leaders from each states weighing in, and pro-Kannada and Marathi activists being detained through police amid a irritating surroundings within the border district of Belagavi.

    Following this, the Karnataka and Maharashtra CMs spoke to one another over the telephone and agreed there will have to be peace and legislation and order will have to be maintained on either side.

    The border factor dates again to 1957 after the reorganisation of states on linguistic strains.

    Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was once a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a sizeable Marathi-speaking inhabitants.

    It additionally laid declare to 814 Marathi-speaking villages that are lately a part of Karnataka.

    Karnataka maintains the demarcation performed on linguistic strains as consistent with the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Fee File as ultimate.

    The dispute is pending within the Very best courtroom.

  • Political warmth over Karnataka-Maharashtra boundary dispute escalates

    By means of PTI

    BENGALURU: The political warmth over the inter-state border row has escalated with Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai hitting again at Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis terming his remark at the factor “provocative”.

    “No village in Maharashtra will cross to Karnataka! The state govt will battle strongly within the Preferrred Court docket to get Marathi talking villages in Karnataka together with Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani!,” mentioned Fadnavis.

    In a retort, Bommai, terming it a provocative remark, mentioned: “His (Fadnavis’) dream won’t ever come true. Our govt is dedicated to protective our state’s land, water and borders.”

    He additional mentioned that there was once no query of giving up any area within the border districts of Karnataka.

    In reality, he mentioned: “Our call for is that the Kannada talking spaces of Maharashtra like Solapur and Akkalkot must sign up for Karnataka.”

    The dispute over Belagavi dates again to the Nineteen Sixties after the reorganisation of States on linguistic strains.

    Previous this week, the Eknath Shinde govt in Maharashtra appointed two ministers to coordinate with the prison crew in regards to the court docket case at the dispute set to come back up within the Preferrred Court docket.

    Bommai mentioned quickly after that the State has deployed a battery of most sensible attorneys, together with Mukul Rohatgi and Shyam Diwan, to battle its case.

    Bommai mentioned since 2004, the Maharashtra govt has filed a case within the Apex court docket over the border factor.

    “Thus far they have got no longer succeeded and they’re going to no longer achieve long run as smartly. We’re geared as much as enhance our prison fight.”

    The Karnataka CM had claimed that the Panchayats in Jath Taluka in Sangli district of Maharashtra had handed a answer previously to merge with Karnataka when there was once a critical drought scenario and acute ingesting water disaster, and his govt has advanced schemes to assist them via offering water.

    Responding to this, Fadnavis advised journalists in Nagpur on Wednesday: “Those villages (in Jat Taluk) had presented a answer at the factor of water shortage in 2012.

    At this time, not one of the villages have presented any answer.

    ” Karnataka has many times maintained that the Mahajan Fee document at the border factor is ultimate, and “there is not any query of letting cross even an inch of Karnataka’s border”.

    Bommai reiterated this week that there is not any instance to turn that what have been achieved beneath the States Reorganisation Act was once reviewed.

    “The border dispute is a political instrument utilized by all events in Maharashtra. However they’re going to by no means be triumphant,” he had mentioned.

    Shinde mentioned previous this week: “Past due Balasaheb Thackeray was once at all times a staunch supporter of the state’s call for to make Belgaum (Belagavi) part of Maharashtra. Now we have concentrated our focal point on fixing the problem. If required, the selection of attorneys can be higher”.

    BENGALURU: The political warmth over the inter-state border row has escalated with Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai hitting again at Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis terming his remark at the factor “provocative”.

    “No village in Maharashtra will cross to Karnataka! The state govt will battle strongly within the Preferrred Court docket to get Marathi talking villages in Karnataka together with Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani!,” mentioned Fadnavis.

    In a retort, Bommai, terming it a provocative remark, mentioned: “His (Fadnavis’) dream won’t ever come true. Our govt is dedicated to protective our state’s land, water and borders.”

    He additional mentioned that there was once no query of giving up any area within the border districts of Karnataka.

    In reality, he mentioned: “Our call for is that the Kannada talking spaces of Maharashtra like Solapur and Akkalkot must sign up for Karnataka.”

    The dispute over Belagavi dates again to the Nineteen Sixties after the reorganisation of States on linguistic strains.

    Previous this week, the Eknath Shinde govt in Maharashtra appointed two ministers to coordinate with the prison crew in regards to the court docket case at the dispute set to come back up within the Preferrred Court docket.

    Bommai mentioned quickly after that the State has deployed a battery of most sensible attorneys, together with Mukul Rohatgi and Shyam Diwan, to battle its case.

    Bommai mentioned since 2004, the Maharashtra govt has filed a case within the Apex court docket over the border factor.

    “Thus far they have got no longer succeeded and they’re going to no longer achieve long run as smartly. We’re geared as much as enhance our prison fight.”

    The Karnataka CM had claimed that the Panchayats in Jath Taluka in Sangli district of Maharashtra had handed a answer previously to merge with Karnataka when there was once a critical drought scenario and acute ingesting water disaster, and his govt has advanced schemes to assist them via offering water.

    Responding to this, Fadnavis advised journalists in Nagpur on Wednesday: “Those villages (in Jat Taluk) had presented a answer at the factor of water shortage in 2012.

    At this time, not one of the villages have presented any answer.

    ” Karnataka has many times maintained that the Mahajan Fee document at the border factor is ultimate, and “there is not any query of letting cross even an inch of Karnataka’s border”.

    Bommai reiterated this week that there is not any instance to turn that what have been achieved beneath the States Reorganisation Act was once reviewed.

    “The border dispute is a political instrument utilized by all events in Maharashtra. However they’re going to by no means be triumphant,” he had mentioned.

    Shinde mentioned previous this week: “Past due Balasaheb Thackeray was once at all times a staunch supporter of the state’s call for to make Belgaum (Belagavi) part of Maharashtra. Now we have concentrated our focal point on fixing the problem. If required, the selection of attorneys can be higher”.

  • Political warmth over Karnataka-Maharashtra boundary dispute escalates

    Through PTI

    BENGALURU: The political warmth over the inter-state border row has escalated with Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai hitting again at Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis terming his observation at the factor “provocative”.

    “No village in Maharashtra will move to Karnataka! The state govt will battle strongly within the Ideal Court docket to get Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka together with Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani!,” stated Fadnavis.

    In a retort, Bommai, terming it a provocative observation, stated: “His (Fadnavis’) dream won’t ever come true. Our govt is dedicated to protective our state’s land, water and borders.”

    He additional stated that there used to be no query of giving up any area within the border districts of Karnataka.

    In reality, he stated: “Our call for is that the Kannada talking spaces of Maharashtra like Solapur and Akkalkot will have to sign up for Karnataka.”

    The dispute over Belagavi dates again to the Sixties after the reorganisation of States on linguistic strains.

    Previous this week, the Eknath Shinde govt in Maharashtra appointed two ministers to coordinate with the prison staff in regards to the court docket case at the dispute set to return up within the Ideal Court docket.

    Bommai stated quickly after that the State has deployed a battery of most sensible attorneys, together with Mukul Rohatgi and Shyam Diwan, to battle its case.

    Bommai stated since 2004, the Maharashtra govt has filed a case within the Apex court docket over the border factor.

    “Up to now they’ve no longer succeeded and they’re going to no longer reach long run as smartly. We’re geared as much as beef up our prison struggle.”

    The Karnataka CM had claimed that the Panchayats in Jath Taluka in Sangli district of Maharashtra had handed a solution prior to now to merge with Karnataka when there used to be a critical drought scenario and acute consuming water disaster, and his govt has developed schemes to lend a hand them by way of offering water.

    Responding to this, Fadnavis instructed journalists in Nagpur on Wednesday: “Those villages (in Jat Taluk) had presented a solution at the factor of water shortage in 2012. Right now, not one of the villages have presented any solution.”

    Karnataka has again and again maintained that the Mahajan Fee file at the border factor is ultimate, and “there’s no query of letting move even an inch of Karnataka’s border”.

    Bommai reiterated this week that there’s no instance to turn that what have been completed below the States Reorganisation Act used to be reviewed.

    “The border dispute is a political device utilized by all events in Maharashtra. However they’re going to by no means be successful,” he had stated.

    Shinde stated previous this week: “Past due Balasaheb Thackeray used to be all the time a staunch supporter of the state’s call for to make Belgaum (Belagavi) part of Maharashtra. We now have concentrated our focal point on fixing the problem. If required, the selection of attorneys can be larger”.

    BENGALURU: The political warmth over the inter-state border row has escalated with Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai hitting again at Maharashtra Deputy Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis terming his observation at the factor “provocative”.

    “No village in Maharashtra will move to Karnataka! The state govt will battle strongly within the Ideal Court docket to get Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka together with Belgaum-Karwar-Nipani!,” stated Fadnavis.

    In a retort, Bommai, terming it a provocative observation, stated: “His (Fadnavis’) dream won’t ever come true. Our govt is dedicated to protective our state’s land, water and borders.”

    He additional stated that there used to be no query of giving up any area within the border districts of Karnataka.

    In reality, he stated: “Our call for is that the Kannada talking spaces of Maharashtra like Solapur and Akkalkot will have to sign up for Karnataka.”

    The dispute over Belagavi dates again to the Sixties after the reorganisation of States on linguistic strains.

    Previous this week, the Eknath Shinde govt in Maharashtra appointed two ministers to coordinate with the prison staff in regards to the court docket case at the dispute set to return up within the Ideal Court docket.

    Bommai stated quickly after that the State has deployed a battery of most sensible attorneys, together with Mukul Rohatgi and Shyam Diwan, to battle its case.

    Bommai stated since 2004, the Maharashtra govt has filed a case within the Apex court docket over the border factor.

    “Up to now they’ve no longer succeeded and they’re going to no longer reach long run as smartly. We’re geared as much as beef up our prison struggle.”

    The Karnataka CM had claimed that the Panchayats in Jath Taluka in Sangli district of Maharashtra had handed a solution prior to now to merge with Karnataka when there used to be a critical drought scenario and acute consuming water disaster, and his govt has developed schemes to lend a hand them by way of offering water.

    Responding to this, Fadnavis instructed journalists in Nagpur on Wednesday: “Those villages (in Jat Taluk) had presented a solution at the factor of water shortage in 2012. Right now, not one of the villages have presented any solution.”

    Karnataka has again and again maintained that the Mahajan Fee file at the border factor is ultimate, and “there’s no query of letting move even an inch of Karnataka’s border”.

    Bommai reiterated this week that there’s no instance to turn that what have been completed below the States Reorganisation Act used to be reviewed.

    “The border dispute is a political device utilized by all events in Maharashtra. However they’re going to by no means be successful,” he had stated.

    Shinde stated previous this week: “Past due Balasaheb Thackeray used to be all the time a staunch supporter of the state’s call for to make Belgaum (Belagavi) part of Maharashtra. We now have concentrated our focal point on fixing the problem. If required, the selection of attorneys can be larger”.

  • Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai watches 777 Charlie, breaks down. See pictures

    Actor-filmmaker Rakshit Shetty hosted a different screening of his newest film 777 Charlie for Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday. Bommai, who’s a self-confessed lover of canines, were given emotional after staring at the film. Within the photos from the post-screening media interplay, the baby-kisser is observed getting teary-eyed remembering his puppy canine, Sunny.

    Bommai misplaced Sunny when he was once the House Minister of the state. And the images of him and his circle of relatives’s emotional good-bye to Sunny had long gone viral on the time. “The day gone by was once particular A heat and honest because of our honorable Leader Minister Shri. @BSBommai for staring at #777Charlie and increasing his complete hearted strengthen to us (sic),” tweeted Rakshit on Tuesday.

    777 Charlie is the tale of an abused canine. The canine escapes the clutches of its abuser and unearths refuge in the home of a reclusive guy. The movie was once launched in a couple of languages on June 10 and garnered sure opinions.

    ನಮ್ಮ ಚಿತ್ರವನ್ನು ವೀಕ್ಷಿಸಿದ ಸನ್ಮಾನ್ಯ ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿಗಳಾದ ಶ್ರೀ ಬಸವರಾಜ್ ಬೊಮ್ಮಾಯಿಯವರಿಗೆ ಮನದಾಳದ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳು.

    The day gone by was once particular ? A heat and honest because of our honorable Leader Minister Shri. @BSBommai for staring at #777Charlie and increasing his complete hearted strengthen to us ? %.twitter.com/cRKjLpuCmW

    — Rakshit Shetty (@rakshitshetty) June 14, 2022

    In his overview of the movie, indianexpress.com’s Manoj Kumar R wrote, “Charlie is the center and soul of the movie. And this dog actor has delivered one of the vital maximum lovable and feel-good moments that we’ve got observed in a very long time. Each and every wide-eyed gaze, each hug and each different humorous response are so filled with charms. Rakshit Shetty performs a supporting function to Charlie; he, as a fellow actor, understands and respects the truth that this movie belongs to the dog megastar.”

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    But even so enjoying the lead function, Rakshit Shetty has additionally bankrolled 777 Charlie. It’s written and directed by means of debutant Kiranraj Okay.

  • Bommai’s Delhi discuss with sparks hypothesis about growth or rejig of Okay’taka cupboard

    Through PTI

    BENGALURU: Karnataka Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s New Delhi discuss with, amid speculations concerning the cupboard growth or reshuffle, has raised hopes amongst ministerial aspirants.

    He’ll be travelling to Delhi on Tuesday morning and his go back time table to Bengaluru on Wednesday has been saved ‘open’.

    Although there is not any point out about Bommai’s assembly with BJP’s central management in his professional excursion programme, in accordance to a couple birthday party resources, he might search their appointment and hang discussions, as he’s halting in Delhi on Tuesday evening.

    As in step with the excursion programme, launched to media on Monday, he’s anticipated to fulfill a number of Union Ministers on Tuesday and within the night will probably be protecting interactions with ambassadors of quite a lot of international locations referring to ‘Make investments Karnataka 2022’ – World Buyers Meet, which is scheduled to be held in November.

    Bommai had lately stated that he’s able to visit New Delhi to talk about the cupboard workout, as quickly because the BJP central management calls him.

    Karnataka BJP strongman B S Yediyurappa remaining Friday had hinted that the much-awaited growth or reshuffle, might happen earlier than Would possibly 10.

    The previous leader minister had stated High Minister Narendra Modi will quickly take a call on this regard after dialogue with Union House Minister Amit Shah, who had visited the town previous this month.

    The postponement of the cupboard assembly that was once scheduled to be held remaining week had additionally added to the speculations that it will had been executed to deal with growth or reshuffle of the ministry, amid experiences that the BJP top command is predicted to reach at a call quickly.

    Amid murmurs within the BJP circles {that a} top-to-bottom overhaul of the cupboard can’t be dominated out, ministerial aspirants are hopeful {that a} determination is most likely quickly referring to cupboard growth or reshuffle, and there are even talks that a number of incumbents may make manner for recent faces.

    Bommai is underneath power from aspirants to increase or reshuffle his cupboard on the earliest, forward of meeting polls subsequent yr.

    There are these days 5 positions vacant within the state cupboard, which has 29 ministers, together with the manager minister, in opposition to the sanctioned energy of 34.

    Some legislators have even been advocating a Gujarat-like overhaul of the Karnataka cupboard quickly, to make manner for brand new faces, forward of the meeting elections.

  • Buzz over management trade in Ok’taka ‘hypothetical’, CM Bommai a ‘commonplace guy’: Arun Singh 

    Through PTI

    BENGALURU: Terming the excitement over imaginable adjustments of management in Karnataka as “hypothetical”, BJP nationwide Normal Secretary in-charge of the state Arun Singh on Tuesday mentioned Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai is a “commonplace guy”, and folks right here like him.

    He additionally mentioned the cupboard growth or reshuffle is the prerogative of the Leader Minister.

    “There’s no solution for the query you’re asking, there’s no solution for hypothetical questions. Those are hypothetical questions that you’re elevating, there’s no solution,” Singh instructed newshounds in accordance with a query on management trade.

    Requested whether or not Bommai would be the face of the birthday celebration for 2023 meeting polls, he mentioned, “Basavaraj Bommai is a commonplace guy, the best way he’s running for the deficient and farmers, underneath the management of the Top Minister, folks of the state like him.”

    The recent spherical of hypothesis about management trade within the state, used to be following BJP nationwide common secretary B L Santhosh’s observation on Sunday that the birthday celebration’s power lies within the induction of latest faces.

    State BJP strongman and previous leader minister B S Yediyurappa, who used to be changed by means of Bommai in July closing 12 months, too mentioned there aren’t any such talks about management trade in Karnataka and what’s going on are mere “speculations”.

    He additionally expressed hopes about cupboard growth going down in a few days and Union House Minister Amit Shah, who’s within the state, would possibly announce a call or do it after discussing with PM Modi and different leaders in Delhi.

    BJP’s Karnataka unit President Nalin Kumar Kateel too mentioned there’s no confusion within the birthday celebration at the management factor.

    “The transparent message for individuals who are looking to create confusion is, we’re going to the following polls in combination as a staff underneath the management of present Leader Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Yediyurappa’s steering. We will be able to face the election and win 150 seats. If some persons are in different illusions, it’s just right that they arrive out of it,” he mentioned.

    Shah, who’s within the town as of late, is assembly senior birthday celebration leaders together with Bommai and Yediyurappa, and is more likely to assess the BJP’s arrangements for the elections. His discuss with has come amid buzz over imaginable adjustments within the management, and power to reshuffle or extend the cupboard.

    Bommai, who’s underneath power to extend or reshuffle his cupboard on the earliest, has already indicated that he would check out to talk about it with Shah all through this discuss with.

    There are these days 5 positions vacant within the state cupboard, which has 29 ministers, together with the manager minister, towards the sanctioned power of 34.

    Some legislators have even been advocating a Gujarat-like overhaul of the Karnataka cupboard quickly, to make approach for brand spanking new faces, forward of the meeting elections.

  • Language showdown reality: South is the brand new No. 1 in movie stakes

    As political leaders throughout events in Karnataka weighed in on a debate brought on through an alternate of phrases between Bollywood superstar Ajay Devgn and Kannada actor Kiccha Sudeep, former Leader Minister H D Kumaraswamy tweeted that what lay on the center of it was once a easy reality: “Devgan should realise that Kannada cinema is outgrowing Hindi movie business.”

    In contemporary months, movies equivalent to Pushpa: The Upward push, RRR and maximum just lately, KGF: Bankruptcy 2, have damaged box-office information, signalling a seismic shift in a market lengthy ruled through Hindi movies. In 2019, Bollywood’s proportion on the home field workplace was once round Rs 5,200 crore, whilst all South Indian movie industries in combination accounted for round Rs 4,000 crore. Via 2021, as according to a brand new EY-FICCI document, Bollywood’s profits of Rs 800 crore have been one-third of the Rs 2,400 crore made through South Indian movies.

    And sir @ajaydevgn ,,
    I did perceive the txt you despatched in hindi. Tats handiest coz all of us have revered,liked and learnt hindi.
    No offense sir,,,however was once questioning what’d the placement be if my reaction was once typed in kannada.!!
    Don’t we too belong to India sir.
    ?

    — Kichcha Sudeepa (@KicchaSudeep) April 27, 2022

    The political row erupted after Devgn stirred a Hindi vs regional languages debate following a remark through Sudeep at a contemporary press match that Hindi may just now not be thought to be the ‘nationwide language’ as audiences had a transparent urge for food for regional cinema. Devgn tweeted to Sudeep Wednesday, announcing that if he didn’t believe Hindi the nationwide language, why did South Indian filmmakers unencumber dubbed Hindi variations in their movies in North Indian markets. Hindi is our mom tongue and nationwide language and can stay so, Devgn mentioned.

    Sudeep later clarified that the context wherein he made the remark was once other and that it was once no longer meant to harm or get started a debate. However, within the tough language box, nonetheless heated from a contemporary remark through Union House Minister Amit Shah supporting the usage of Hindi, it was once too past due. From CM Basavaraj Bommai of the BJP to former CM Siddaramaiah of the Congress and Kumaraswamy of the JD(S), all puzzled Devgn’s statement of Hindi because the nationwide language.

    Hindi was once by no means & won’t ever be our Nationwide Language.

    It’s the responsibility of each and every Indian to recognize linguistic range of our Nation.

    Each and every language has its personal wealthy historical past for its folks to be happy with.

    I’m proud to be a Kannadiga!! https://t.co/SmT2gsfkgO

    — Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 27, 2022

    In his tweet Thursday, Kumaraswamy added: “Devgn shouldn’t disregard that his first film ‘Phool aur Kaante’ ran for a 12 months in Bengaluru.”

    That was once in 1991. Pushpa, the Telugu language movie launched on the tail-end of 2021 and the 12 months’s highest-grossing movie, made greater than Rs 100 crore of its over Rs 360 crore haul in what’s referred to as the ‘Hindi belt’ on my own.

    Actor @KicchaSudeep announcing that Hindi isn’t a Nationwide Language is right kind. There’s not anything to seek out fault in his remark. Actor @ajaydevgn isn’t just hyper in nature but additionally displays his ludicrous behaviour. 1/7

    — H D Kumaraswamy (@hd_kumaraswamy) April 28, 2022

    The Kannada language KGF 2, a sequel to the hit 2018 movie, at over Rs 300 crore, is not only the highest-grossing movie in North India this 12 months, however its Hindi model may be the 0.33 perfect incomes Hindi movie ever. International, it’s inching in opposition to the Rs 1,000 crore mark.

    Director S S Rajamouli’s RRR, starring two of Telugu cinema’s greatest stars — Jr NTR and Ram Charan — revamped Rs 250 crore in North India, and with over Rs 1,100 crore international, is the 12 months’s greatest Indian hit.

    In maximum North Indian areas, movies from the South now play in dubbed variations. Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has argued that South Indian movies exude a way of satisfaction in native tradition, which Bollywood movies, in a bid to attraction to multiplex audiences in city centres, don’t.

    Pushpa, for example, stars Allu Arjun, whom filmmaker Karan Johar has described in interviews as a ‘satellite tv for pc superstar’. Allu Arjun become standard amongst Hindi-speaking audiences no longer on account of hit theatrical releases, however re-runs of his movies on tv. So when Pushpa was once given a hefty push in North Indian markets, audience have been conversant in his paintings. RRR is directed through Rajamouli, who become a emblem unto himself after the back-to-back luck of his two Baahubali films. KGF 2 was once using at the goodwill of the primary instalment, which was once additionally a theatrical luck in Hindi, however received a good higher cult of enthusiasts due to an Amazon Top Video unencumber all the way through the pandemic years.

    None of those movies required the standard two-week advertising push forward of unencumber.

    No longer all South Indian movies have succeeded within the North, although. ‘Thala’ Ajith’s Tamil action-thriller Valimai, produced through Boney Kapoor, flopped so dramatically {that a} re-edited model was once briefly put in combination and slipped into theatres. This modified not anything. One thing identical came about with each Beast, the ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay-starrer which was once given a Hindi unencumber underneath the name Uncooked, and Baahubali superstar Prabhas’s time-hopping romantic epic Radhe Shyam, which was once on Top Video mere days after its theatrical run.

    However there has handiest been one bona fide Hindi hit this 12 months, The Kashmir Recordsdata. However that was once an anomaly, taking into account the slightly restricted unencumber that the movie was once first of all given. The movie in the end obliterated all pageant, together with Akshay Kumar’s extra mainstream Bachchan Paandey, because it hurtled in opposition to a Rs 250 crore (and counting) run.

    With just about Rs 200 crore international, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Gangubai Kathiawadi did nice trade, particularly for a movie fronted through a feminine superstar — Alia Bhatt — but it surely additionally got here with a hefty reported funds of over Rs 100 crore.

    What seems to have in reality completed in Bollywood is a high-profile string of flops, that, along with Bachchan Paandey, come with the John Abraham-starrer Assault: Section 1, the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Jhund, and maximum just lately, the Shahid Kapoor-starrer Jersey, which, by the way, is a remake of the Telugu language movie through the similar title.