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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

CM distances govt. from Katti’s statement on division of State

A day after Minister Umesh Katti said that North Karnataka would become a separate State after the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, triggering a controversy, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday sought to distance the government from the remarks of his ministerial colleague.

There is no thinking or proposal at the government level to carve out a separate state of North Karnataka, the Chief Minister told reporters in New Delhi.

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