Shiv Sena targets vehicles with Kannada boards

Shiv Sena activists continued to target Kannada boards and pasted Jai Maharashtra posters on private vehicles coming from Kagal in Kolhapur towards Nippani in the Belagavi district on Saturday.

Some shops at Kagal had bilingual boards and Kannada part of those boards was painted with black paint. They later targeted private vehicles, like trucks, coming towards Nippani and pasted Jai Maharashtra posters on their windscreen.

The Sena activists also raised slogans against the state and demanded that boundary areas be merged with Maharashtra.

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Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene in the Karnataka-Maharashtra boundary dispute.

He told reporters at Athani that the Maharashtra government, led by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, has failed on all fronts and is diverting the attention of the people from burning issues. The party’s workers were creating problems and attacking Karnataka buses, he charged.

Savadi said that Shiv Sena has been repeatedly raking up the boundary issue and targeting Karnataka buses by blackening and painting Jai Maharashtra slogans on them. Hence, the prime minister should intervene and resolve the issue, he added.