Bus service stopped between Karnataka and Maharashtra

Bus services between Karnataka and Maharashtra were halted as state transport officials felt that the tense situation at the border could cause damage to vehicles.

The NWKRTC stopped buses from the border districts – Belagavi, Vijayapura, Kalaburagi and Bidar. Officials said about 200 trips were halted until Sunday morning. He said that the buses would ply if the situation returned to normal.

Hundreds of passengers waited at the Belagavi Central Bus Stand for buses that could take them across the border. He was disappointed to learn that most of the buses would return from the border at Nipani.

After the efforts of Marathi and Kannada groups to blacken the stickers and boards pasting vehicles and boards before shops in Belagavi and Kolhapur.

This was a reaction by some Marathi groups to blackening of Kannada boards in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, last week. The Kannada groups in Belagavi retreated this week in Belagavi by tearing down and blackening Marathi boards.

NWKRTC officials said the bus service would be resumed by Sunday evening or Monday if the situation returned to normal.