To counter the baseless claims of Non Maharashtrians trying to break up Maharshtra, all the Maharashtrians should rally together to peacefully claim a seperate country status for Maharashtra to end the apathy to the Maharashtrians who are robbed off their pockets to feed the poorer states and beggers coming into this prosperous state thus looting the riches. Maharashtra would be amongst the richer countries if independant and the governance would be much simpler. There could be a defence pact with the India or the USA whichever is more favorable. Other states could follow the example. Several east european states broke up peacefully during the violet revolution in 1990-91 and are reaping the fruits of prosperity and independant governance and a control over their populations...