Chandrakant Patil and Shamburaj Desai to visit Karnataka on December 3 over border row

Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai will meet activists of the Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti in Belgaum on December 3 and hold talks with them on the decades-old border dispute with Karnataka.

Patil and Desai have been appointed as the coordinating ministers for the border row with a mandate to coordinate with the legal team regarding the court case on the border dispute between the two states.

Taking to Twitter, Patil said there was a demand from the Madhyavarti Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti to hold discussions on the border issue.

Accordingly, coordinating minister Shamburaj Desai and I will visit Belgaum on December 3 and hold discussions. Let's meet up. Discussions surely will lead to a way," the minister tweeted with a letter from the Samiti seeking a meeting with him and Desai.

Patil and Desai will also look into the problems faced by residents of 865 villages in Karnataka over which the Maharashtra government has staked its claim in this decades old issue, the resolution said.

महाराष्ट्र-कर्नाटक सीमाप्रश्नी बेळगावी येऊन कार्यकर्त्यांशी चर्चा करावी, अशी मध्यवर्ती महाराष्ट्र एकीकरण समितीची भूमिका आहे. त्यानुसार मी आणि समन्वयक मंत्री शंभुराज देसाई ३ डिसेंबर रोजी दिवसभर बेळगाव येथे जाऊन कार्यकर्त्यांशी चर्चा करणार आहोत.
भेटूया, चर्चेतून नक्कीच मार्ग निघतो! pic.twitter.com/nQiq3mgzcE

— Chandrakant Patil (@ChDadaPatil) November 28, 2022