Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has slammed the Maharashtra Government’s choice to implement a well being insurance coverage scheme in 865 bordervillages that are claimed by each the states. Even Karnataka’s Opposition get together, Congress, has denounced the transfer. “I strongly condemn the Maharashtra Government’s announcement of a health insurance scheme in our villages, as it violates the agreement we had arrived upon in the presence of Amit Shah,” Bommai informed the media on Thursday.

According to sources, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde had lately allotted an extra Rs54 crore for ‘Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Jan Arogya Yojana’ in order that the advantages could possibly be prolonged to 865 villages within the southern state that Maharashtra has been laying declare to.

Jat and Solapur’s decision to affix Karnataka

In a counter, Karnataka stated many talukas and gram panchayats within the border districts of Jat and Solapur had handed resolutions to affix the southern state as they have been “not getting justice” in Maharashtra. “In such a situation, the Maharashtra Government should behave responsibly, considering the sensitivity of the issue,” Bommai stated. “It is an attempt to disturb the federal structure of India,” stated the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee chief DK Shivakumar and opposition chief Siddaramaiah.

In December 2022, Shah had stepped in to defuse border tensions between the 2 states and requested each the edges to not make any declare or counterclaim till a Supreme Court verdict on the border row comes by means of.

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Published on: Saturday, March 18, 2023, 12:33 AM IST