Andhra Pradesh: State of drift

Maharashtra’s politics is now so reflexively chauvinistic that its excesses no longer surprise. After a day spent plotting how to scotch revisionist writing on religious and national icons, the state government has nominated itself to lead an agitation for altering the map of neighbouring Karnataka. Chief Minister Ashok Chavan demanded that Belgaum and 865 villages with Marathi speakers in Karnataka be declared Union territory till the Supreme Court pronounced on their status.

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