 In the press conference in Mumbai he broke into tears and said "All of us are entitled to our opinions.But physical attacks are no way of settling differences", he stated.Vasant Patil, former MLA from Belgaum, said for the past several decades the Marathi-speaking population of Belgaum (population 5 lakh) have been putting up with a host of atrocities heaped on them by successive governments of Karnataka.