Saturday, July 24, 2010

Interstate disputes



Of late we are seeing lot of disputes between states unnecessarily. Zero tolerance has become the day of the order.
Karnataka has dispute with 3 neighboring states. It has major state border dispute with Maharashtra over Belgaum area. MR claims it as its area and the MES (Maharashtra Ekikaran Samithi) – the loyal group of MR – wants Belgaum to be separated from Karnataka and merged with MR.
It has row with Tamil Nadu over Cauvery for decades together. Being a state in the upstream – always has quarrel with TN in releasing water to TN. The rich fertile Mandya/Mysore region farmers always do dharnas against this issue and force the government against releasing the water. It lead many a ties tension in Bangalore between Kannadigas and Tamilinas.
Almatti is another dispute between Karnataka and AP. Karnataka has raised the dam height by 0.6 m – saying it is negligible and the basement level at most of the places is infact submerged.
Andhra has state disputes. It has with Karnataka on Almatti. Ofcourse old issues with almost all states during states reorganizations during the formation of AP on the basis of language. Many Telugu speaking areas have been merged with other states wrongly – like Bellary with Karnataka, Nizam states in North Karnataka, Ganjam districts in Orissa.
Now new issue is with Maharashtra on Babli. MR government has become a dictator government by beating even former CM of Andhra – thus one can imagine what it would have done if common people enter into their state. Shiv Sena which waits for such issues is making its best of politics – thus creating big menace with AP on one side and with Karnataka in another side.
Even the central water board, the water minister have expressed its inability to resolve the issues. Instead they suggested that one should approach the SC for resolution of such cases. If so then what for the government is there? The Congress governments in AP, MR and at center clearly took revenge on Chandra Babu by harassing him to the possible extent – thus adding fuel to the fire of Interstate disputes.
Center/States/Public should consider this country as single nation and work to solve the issues amicably and maintain peace, law and order.

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