Maharashtra News Live Updates: Won't let an inch of land go away, says CM Eknath Shinde on border row with Karnataka

KOLHAPUR: Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana has withdrawn it's agitation- Chakka Jam- of blocking state and national highways from the state after president of the outfit Raju Shetti gets a call from the government to hold a discussion over the issues pertaining to the fair and remunerative price for sugarcane.

Minister of cooperation Atul Save has written to Shetti stating that the CM Eknath Shinde has requested to call off the protest and has invited for discussion on November 29.

More than a month after a 14-year-old girl student of an ashram school in Palghar district of Maharashtra allegedly ended her life, police have registered a case against the headmaster of the institution on the charge of abetting her suicide, an official said on Thursday.

The case was registered against the headmaster of the ashram school located at Parli in Wada taluka of the district, he said.The girl had ended her life after consuming poison at her house in Wadavali on October 20, the police said.

Members of the Maratha Mahasangh on Thursday painted messages on a bus of the Karnataka State Road Transport to protest against Karnataka Chief Minister Basavraj Bommai's statements on the border dispute.

Words "Jai Maharashtra" and "Jahir nishedh" (condemnation) were painted in orange and black on a Nipani-Aurangabad bus at Daund in Pune district, said one of its members.

They also shouted slogans against the Karnataka chief minister.

Calling Maharashtra Governor B S Koshyari an 'Amazon parcel' sent by the Centre, former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Thursday demanded his recall over his recent remarks on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Thackeray said his party may hold a state-wide bandh if no decision is taken on his demand in the next few days, and asked all political parties in Maharashtra to unite against the governor.Koshyari had found himself amidst a controversy last week over his remarks that Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of "olden days".

With border row with Maharashtra once again escalating, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said he would convene an all-party meeting next week to discuss the ways to resolve the dispute amicably. "An all-party meeting has been convened next week to discuss in detail the Maharashtra government's intentions to resolve the border row amicably through talks, and other important issues," the Chief Minister explained.

Amid the ongoing controversy over the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka, chief minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday asserted that his government will not let even an inch of the land of Maharashtra go away to anyone.

While talking to reporters on Thursday, Eknath Shinde said, "We are doing the work of giving justice to the Marathi people in the border areas. Not even an inch of space in Maharashtra will be allowed to go anywhere." "It is our government's responsibility to solve the problems of 40 villages," he added.