Border row with K'taka: Maha will fight even for an inch of land, says Fadnavis

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday asserted the state government will fight even for an inch of land amid the simmering boundary dispute with KarnatakaSpeaking in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly Fadnavis said the state government will do whatever it can to ensure the Marathispeaking people in Karnataka get justiceThe issue of the MaharashtraKarnataka border row echoed in the ongoing winter session of the state Assembly here on Monday with the opposition demanding a resolution on the issueNotably the Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution on border row with Maharashtra resolving to protect the southern states interests and not to cede an inch of land to its neighbourAlso read Centre should declare Karnatakaoccupied Maharashtra as Union Territory Uddhav ThackerayThe resolution which also condemned the border dispute created by Maharashtra and moved by Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was adopted by a voice voteOn Monday raising the issue in the Maharashtra Assembly Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar asked why did the government not move the resolution on the border row when it was decided in the Business Advisory Committee that a proposal on it would be moved in the first week of the winter sessionThe proposal to move the resolution also did not figure in Mondays business list he pointed outPawar said the statements by Karnataka chief minister have hurt the pride of MaharashtraResponding to it Deputy CM Fadnavis said the resolution could not be introduced last week as the situation was not conducive an apparent reference to the suspension of senior Nationalist Congress Party NCP leader Jayant Patil who was suspended on Thursday for the rest of the session for his remark against Speaker Rahul NarvekarChief Minister Eknath Shinde was in Delhi to attend an official function due to which the resolution could not be tabled in the House Fadnavis saidHe assured the House that a resolution on the border row would be tabled on Monday or TuesdayWe will fight even for an inch We will do whatever we can for the justice of the Marathispeaking population in Karnataka the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP saidThe state government will not back down even an inch on the issue he addedFormer chief minister Prithviraj Chavan Congress said the Karnataka CM has been resorting to use of provocative language and the Maharashtra government should take up the issue with the Union Home Ministry under which comes the Linguistic Minorities CommissionThe Maharashtra government should not act as a mere spectator in the case when the Karnataka government is trying to muddy the waters Chavan saidShiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray faction member Bhaskar Jadhav accused the Maharashtra chief minister and deputy chief minister of becoming helpless in the case when the Marathispeaking population is illtreatedHitting back Fadnavis said no one has the guts to make the chief minister and deputy chief minister become helplessThis 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