Bengaluru:

Terming the Maharashtra authorities’s order extending advantages of its healthcare scheme to 865 villages in Karnataka, amid the continuing border dispute between two states, as an act that threatens the federal system, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday warned of retaliatory measure if it was not withdrawn.

Leader of Opposition in Karnataka Assembly Siddaramaiah stated, Maharashtra’s transfer can’t be tolerated. “The consequences will not be right if it is not withdrawn immediately.”

In a collection of tweets, Bommai alleged that within the identify of offering insurance coverage to the folks on Karnataka’s aspect of the border, the Maharashtra authorities is taking declaration letters from them stating that they belong to Maharashtra. “This is condemnable. If the Maharashtra government continues its insolent behaviour, the Karnataka government will also implement a similar insurance scheme for the protection of the Kannadigas on the Maharashtra’s side of the border.”

A authorities decision (GR) extending the advantages of the ‘Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jan Arogya Yojana’ scheme to Karnataka villages, was issued by Maharashtra on Monday.

The order stated 865 villages from 12 tehsils in Belagavi, Karvar, Kalaburagi and Bidar have been included below the ‘Yojana’.

“Even though the Karnataka-Maharashtra border dispute is in the Supreme Court, the Maharashtra government is trying to create confusion in the border areas of both the states. The order to insure some people on the Karnataka border is the height of insolence and is an attempt to disrupt ties between the two states”, Bommai stated.

Pointing out that Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in a gathering chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah had agreed to not create any confusion on the border subject, he stated now issuing an order to implement the Babu Jagjivan Ram medical insurance scheme for 865 villages in Karnataka, is an act that threatens the federal system.

“The Maharashtra government should immediately withdraw its order and by respecting the instructions given by Amit Shah, should work towards safeguarding the relationship between the two states,” he added.

Meanwhile, Siddaramaiah stated the Maharashtra Chief Minister just isn’t giving any worth to assurance and phrases of Union Home Minister and Karnataka Chief Minister relating to the border subject, and referred to as on Bommai to behave on this regard.

“The Belagavi border dispute is in the court. We are hopeful that Kannadigas will get justice. In the meantime, it is condemnable that Maharashtra is doing the mischief of digging up the boundary issue for political gains. Kannadigas will not tolerate this,” the previous Chief Minister added.

The border subject dates again to 1957 when States have been reorganised on linguistic traces. Maharashtra laid declare to Belagavi, which was a part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, because it has a large Marathi-speaking inhabitants. It additionally laid declare to over 800 Marathi-speaking villages that are at present part of Karnataka.

Karnataka maintains that the demarcation accomplished on linguistic traces as per the States Reorganisation Act and the 1967 Mahajan Commission Report is last.

And, in an assertion about Belagavi being an integral a part of the State, Karnataka constructed the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha there, modelled on the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the State Legislature and Secretariat, in Bengaluru.

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