Protest
Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti members took out a rally in Belagavi on Thursday, in protest against Urban Development Minister Roshan Baig’s recent statement that elected representatives raising slogans in favour of Maharashtra would face action.
Legislators, zilla panchayat and taluk panchayat members, city corporation and city municipal council members and activists, a large number of them women, joined the rally. They shouted slogans against the Minister and raised slogans like “Jai Maharashtra.”
On Wednesday, Deputy Commissioner N. Jayaram issued orders prohibiting the entry of two Shiv Sena Ministers from Maharashtra into Belagavi district. He was acting on reports that Divakar Rawat and Dipak Sawant were supposed to join Thursday’s protest.
