Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Monday called the assault by police on Marathi speaking people in Karnataka as 'Kannada terrorism.' The Sena has asked NDA led to intervene into the case.



The district administration of Belgaum on Friday had demolished a sign board at Yallur village which is said to be a Maharashtrian village.



Shin Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray in an editorial in Saamna wrote "In Mumbai, the Karnataka Bhawan and Karnataka Sangh buildings stand tall. However, a 'Maharashtra state' board in Karnataka is not tolerated and prompts such brutal assault which even puts Hafiz Saeed to shame."



The editorial questioned "All political parties blasted the Maharashtra Sadan force-feeding issue. Will they show the same zeal in condemning this injustice on Marathi speaking people of Karnataka."



It further stated "In Modi, we have a strong Prime Minister and in Rajnath Singh, we have got a strong Home Minister. The Marathi speaking populace in the border area has great expectation from them."



"If Karnataka Police is indulging in terror against Marathi-speaking people, it is the responsibility of the Central government to curb this terrorism. We are making this appeal to the Central government because those ruling Maharashtra are incompetent," the editorial read.



In return, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan called up chief minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah to convey the message. He said that he had told the CM about strong sentiments of people speaking Marathi in Karnataka.



However, Nitesh Rane has said that there will be no celebrations in Maharashtra on Karnataka day in order to protest against the incident.

[With PTI inputs]

Image: File photo of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.