On Monday, Thackeray wrote to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, urging the state assembly to pass a resolution declaring Belagavi and Karwar as UTs.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday dismissed Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray's demand to make Belgavi a Union Territory as "childish."
Central rule began in Jammu and Kashmir on October 31, 2019, when the erstwhile state was divided into two Union territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
The National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party have fielded over half a dozen members of political families for the first assembly elections in the region in a decade
The bill added that a special law in terms of Article 80 (5) of the Constitution therefore needed to be enacted to provide representation to the unrepresented UTs