In this situation, Kannada organizations gathered at the Belgaum border to protest against the arrival of the minister and engaged in a road blockade. The protesters broke the windows of two trucks with Maharashtra registration plates that were passing by. Karnataka police arrested more than 720 protestors following tension on the border of the two states.
As a reaction to this, some Shiv Sena party activists boarded three Karnataka government buses at Suvargate near Pune, Maharashtra. ‘Jai Maharashtra’ As such, they protested by using black and orange ‘spray paint’. Also, they protested in Kolhapur area.
The Maharashtra Transport Department has announced that the bus service from Maharashtra to Karnataka has been temporarily suspended as the problem has escalated.
Most of the parties in the state, including the Maharashtra Shiv Sena and the Congress, have been posting aggressive comments such as, ‘Maharashtra government should establish its rights by merging the villages on the Karnataka border,’ and tension has spread like wildfire in the border areas of the two states.