Overview
- Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti marked Karnataka Rajyotsava in Belagavi as a 'Black Day' with a procession and slogans seeking merger of Belagavi, Bidar, Bhalki and Nippani with Maharashtra.
- Minister Satish Jarkiholi said the government will consider a proposal to ban MES following complaints that its activities disturb law and order in border districts.
- Belagavi Police Commissioner Borase Bhushan Gulabrao said the rally lacked permission and announced legal action against MES youth leader Shubham Shelke for violating bonds of good behaviour.
- District authorities enforced prohibitory orders by blocking Kolhapur MP Dairasheel Mane and Shiv Sena leader Vijay Devaney from entering Belagavi at the Kuganoli check post.
- A police inspector’s selfie with Shelke prompted an internal review, and Kannada groups criticized a Rajyotsava award to Rajashree Nagaraju (Halagekar) over alleged pro-MES and anti-Kannada links.