Kannada organisations threaten to protest against Belagavi corporation

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Leaders of Kannada organisations Vatal Nagaraj, Sa Ra Govindu and K.R. Kumar successful  Belagavi connected  Tuesday.

Leaders of Kannada organisations Vatal Nagaraj, Sa Ra Govindu and K.R. Kumar successful Belagavi connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: P.K. BADIGER

Some pro-Kannada organisations person fixed a informing of a State-wide protestation against the Belagavi City Corporation if the municipality section assemblage fails to walk a solution saying that Belagavi is an integral portion of the State.

City corp members passed a solution to merge Belagavi metropolis with Maharashtra successful 2004. However, this solution has neither been retracted nor replaced by different solution opposing it, successful the past 22 years.

“This is unacceptable. The metropolis corp should walk a solution expressing the tendency to stay an integral portion of Karnataka and opposing immoderate effort to merge with Maharashtra. If this is not done successful the adjacent 15 days, we volition signifier a State-wide protest. The protestation volition not lone beryllium held successful beforehand of the metropolis corp wherever the BJP is successful powerfulness but besides successful beforehand of the residences of BJP leaders successful Bengaluru and different places,” the coordination committee of Kannada organisations said successful a release.

“Mayor Preeti Kamkar, Deputy Mayor Hanumath Kongali and others deferred the contented erstwhile it came up earlier the House a fewer days ago. This is unacceptable,” convenor of the committee Ashok Chandaragi said successful the release.

This follows a protestation successful Belagavi connected Tuesday, against the metropolis corp by members of assorted groups of Kannada organisations.

Leaders, including the erstwhile MLA Vatal Nagaraj, Sa Ra Govindu, K.R. Kumar, and others participated successful the protest. The constabulary arrested the protestors and released them later.

Published - May 27, 2026 07:46 p.m. IST

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