Alleging that North Karnataka has faced injustice, discrimination and neglect in every sector, Congress MLA Bharamgouda (Raju) Kage has written to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanding separate statehood for 15 districts of the region.

Renewing the decades-old demand of the people of North Karnataka, Kage, MLA for Kagwad, said he supported the signature campaign started by the North Karnataka Struggle Committee for a separate State.

“I would like to express my strong demand for the creation of a new State comprising 15 districts of North Karnataka — Bidar, Kalaburagi, Vijayapura, Yadgir, Bagalkot, Belagavi, Dharwad, Gadag, Koppal, Raichur, Uttara Kannada, Haveri, Vijayanagara, Ballari, and Davangere — for administrative convenience and holistic development,

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