Do you know the situation of Vidarbha farmers? Both Congress & Sena had promised skies to the poor farmers of Vidarbha but haven't given a mole.
Vidarbha is the suicide capital of our country, with 40, 000 farmers died in Vidarbha alone in last decade. What has your booming Maharastra done to avoid this colossal tragedy? For you, its Bombay & Pune, is maharastra.
It is better Vidarbha is made a seperate state where its own people can manage their affairs and give importance to farming while your "hi-tech" maha can give importance to IT & Bolly.
RE:Let Vidarbha live!
by Vaibhav Pradhan on Jan 09, 2008 11:17 PM Permalink
My friend, Prem Kumar,
you talking two TOTALLY unrelated topics here. There is NO correlation between Vidarbha being part of Maharashtra and farmers suicides. Farmers are committing suicide because of of so many other socio economic reasons (one being globalized economy especially cotton market).
There is no doubt that we need to help suffering farmers. But, separate Vidarbha is CERTAINLY not the answer. Separate Vidarbha will only help politicians and babus and no one else. Don't you see what is happening in Geo?
By the way, as far Vidarbha people managing their own affairs, Vasantrao Naik from Vidarbha is to date the longest serving CM of Maharashtra (11 years) and Sudhakarrao Naik was also Maharashtra CM. Why didn't they do anything for their region when they were CM's? And since they didn't do anything then what makes you think that 'Vidarbha' CM will do something for Vidarbha.
If you are from Vidarbha, then ask your leadership as to what they are doing to improve situation of farmers in that region. They need not be in power to help distressed people. Take a cue from Shivsena as to how to help common people without being in power!
RE:Let Vidarbha live!
by slicktiger on Jan 16, 2008 03:45 PM Permalink
Every state creation leads to.. resource roblems water disputes more regional parties with no real development agenda wastage of central funds costly elections affair money to run government more leaders..more corruption eventually state bankruptancy
Every now and then cheap polititians like KCR,Pawar,Mayawati comes up with bifurcation of states to cover up their failures and state that being united is the root cause of apathy.Central govt. really need to focus and set an agenda for every state to improve the situation in backward districts or regions .automatically the sentiment towards seperation would die down if people start seeing difference.
