Vidarbha – a seperate state?

Maharashtra polls are just a few days away. Votes will be cast on 13th October. However, I didn’t see that many people are excited about it. The reason is simple. Both the alliances (BJP-Shivsena and Cong-NCP) are congruent to each other and could not live up to the expectations of the people of maharashtra. In India, running a govt has become a family business. If father retires, son/daughter takes the charge. Maharashtra is no exception and the leaders feel no shame about it. I just think about the party workers who word hard to make their representives win just to see that whatever they have had done has got no meaning. So, why would the workers be excited?

Everything again is centered around Mumbai. No talks of Vidarbha where situation is terrible. MNS can make hue and cry for mumbai but when it comes to vidarbha and other backward regions, it doesn’t bother them much. No wonder, everyone is a hypocrite. Maharshtra is not making progress. Only Mumbai, Pune and some parts of western maharshtra are making progress. Mumbai is getting electricity which is generated in some part of vidarbha but the irony is that the entire vidarbha is facing load-shedding and struggling for electricity. The problem is that nobody has time to gauge whats happening 800kms away from Mumbai. What is so bad in demanding a seperate state for Vidarbha? But Vidarbha is the main supplier of raw materials to other parts of maharashtra and has got two-third part of forest reserve of maharashtra. So called Leaders of maharashtra do not want to lose that. Politics in Vidarbha is very much different than in regions around Mumbai. The issues that Shivsena is fighting for have never been issues in Vidarbha and that’s why Shivsena has never been able to win many seats here.  

If Vidarbha has to make progress and generate job opputunities and solve agriculture problems, it has to do on its own. India’s agriculture minister is from maharashtra but then vidarbha is never considered a part of maharashtra when it comes to development.