In a major development, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Saturday announced that the BJP government at the Centre will negotiate between Karnataka and Maharashtra on the border dispute. A meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be held on December 14 or 15, over the border row between Karnataka and Maharashtra, said Bommai.

Talking to reporters in the Assembly on Saturday, he said selected MPs from Karnataka will be meeting Shah on Monday. “Shah has said he will be called when required. The stand and the ground reality had been explained to him and it will be clarified once again when we meet him personally,” he said.