Karnataka, Maharashtra assembly sessions begin amid Belagavi border row

The winter session of the Maharashtra legislature began in Nagpur on Monday and the opposition parties raised the issue of the boundary dispute with Karnataka and condemned the ban imposed on MP Dhairyasheel Mane from entering Belagavi district in the neighbouring state.

Shiv Sena MP Mane was recently appointed the chief of an expert committee formed by the Maharashtra government regarding the writ petition in the Supreme Court on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute.

Meanwhile, Security has been heightened in the border area and at the Suvarna Vidhana Soudha, where the Karnataka assembly session is in progress. Section 144 was imposed in Belagavi amid fears of widespread protests.

According to reports, nearly 5,000 policemen have been deployed for maintaining law and order.