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Bengaluru, Feb 01: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol on Sunday reportedly said that the Maratha king Chhatrapti Shivaji was a “Kannadiga”. Speaking to reporters, Karjol said, “Thackrey does not know the history. Shivaji’s forefather Belliyappa was a Kannadiga from Soratur in Karnataka’s Gadag district. When drought struck Gadag, he (Belliyappa) migrated to Maharashtra, and Shivaji was the fourth generation of his family.”
At a book launch on the border dispute between the two states in Mumbai on January 27, Thackeray said areas dominated by Marathi-speaking people in Karnataka like Belagavi, Karwar and Nippani should be declared as the ‘Union Territory’ till the Supreme Court gave…
