<br/>Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has side stepped the demand for giving Union Territory status to the adjoining area of Karnataka's Marathi-speaking districts like Gulbarga and Belgaum. Chavan, who met the Prime Minster in New Delhi yesterday, appealed to him to ask Karnataka to desist from meting out injustice to people in the disputed boundary areas. He also submitted a memorandum on the issue. <br/><br/>Addressing a joint press conference with leaders of other political parties of the state, Chavan told Reporters later that the issue of turning the disputed areas into a Union Territory, as demanded by him in the assembly, was not taken up with the Centre. Earlier the Maharashtra assembly had adopted a resolution voicing displeasure over the Centre's affidavit in the Supreme Court on its boundary row with Karnataka. The resolution demanded that the Centre reconsider its affidavit in which while replying to Maharashtra's claim over Karnataka's Marathi-speaking districts like Gulbarga and Belgaum it had told the Supreme Court last week that language cannot be the only criteria for deciding boundaries of states.