The Hindu : Front Page : Belgaum corporation: decision today

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Thursday, Nov 17, 2005

Front Page

Front Page

Belgaum corporation: decision today

Staff Correspondent

Corporation sends copy of controversial resolution to Government

Bidar: Chief Minister N. Dharam Singh has said a decision on superseding the Belgaum City Corporation, which passed a resolution seeking the merger of Belgaum with Maharashtra, will be taken on Thursday.

"I have asked the Urban Development Secretary to examine the issue and see if such a move will have legal complications. A meeting of senior officials will be convened on Thursday. A final decision will be taken then," he told presspersons after a Congress party workers rally in Bidar on Wednesday.

He said the demand for withdrawing cases against Kannada Rakshana Vedike activists who attacked Belgaum Mayor Vijay More will be considered at the same meeting.

Resolution copy sent

Belgaum Staff Correspondent writes:

After a delay of over two weeks, the Belgaum City Corporation, controlled by the Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi (MES), on Wednesday sent to the State Government a copy of the controversial resolution "requesting the Government and the Supreme Court to merge the disputed areas" with Maharashtra.

However, the wording of the resolution seems to have been diluted.

Yet, it is apparent that support for the MES demand for the transfer of "disputed areas," including Belgaum, Nippani, Karwar, Bidar and Bhalki, is implicit in the resolution adopted under the chairmanship of Mayor Vijay Pandurang More at the first meeting of the corporation council after he took over as Belgaum Mayor on October 27.

It was MES leader and former Mayor Shivaji Sunthakar who moved a call attention motion "requesting the Government to merge the disputed areas of Belgaum, Karwar, Nippani, Bidar, etc. with Maharashtra" despite objections from certain members. The Mayor put the motion to vote and 24 members voted in favour.

The Government has already issued a show-cause notice to the corporation stating that the resolution is illegal and asking why the corporation council should not be superseded.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Front Page

News Update

Stories in this Section