BM Bureau, Dec 14 : The Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) has declared a Belagavi bandh today after a Kannada activist blackened the face of its president Deepak Dalvi . The incident that occurred near the Vaccine Depot ground at Tilakwadi here on Monday afternoon where a protest rally ‘maha melava’ demanding merger of border areas of Karnataka in Maharashtra was held.
Kannada activist Sampath Kumar Desai had smeared black in on Dalvi’s face and body raising slogans favouring Karnataka.
While a complaint was lodged in Tilakwadi police station, the MES also has called for a total bandh of Belagavi and Khanapur on Tuesday.
However, barring a few areas where the shopkeepers had kept the shops closed, the city was normal amid heavy police presence.