‘Hum chaadar dekh kar pair failane wale hain… Govt can’t be run by distributing money alone’: CM Eknath Shinde

Your authorities has completed respective infrastructure projects and launched payment schemes. Why bash you deliberation the Mahayuti is past falling backmost connected slogans similar ‘Batenge toh katenge (Divided we fall)’ and ‘Ek hain toh harmless hain (United we are safe)’?

We are contesting the polls connected improvement plank. But what Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji is saying is that we each should beryllium agreed and helium has not taken the sanction of immoderate religion oregon caste. He said ‘Ek hain toh harmless hain’, which means we should beryllium agreed and contention by bringing each the communities unneurotic and expanding the voting percentage. The mode Britishers would disagreement and rule, the Congress is doing the aforesaid and indulging successful casteist and communal politics, creating walls among castes.

‘Ek hain toh harmless hain’ means each should beryllium agreed and instrumentality guardant the state, and the Centre volition enactment it. The crushed down saying this is due to the fact that of what happened successful the Lok Sabha polls. We saw debased polling percentage, and truthful it is being done (the slogan being raised) to motivate the Mahayuti cadre.

Are these slogans being utilized to divert attraction from agrarian issues?

Unity is important for improvement and to motivate cadre. We bash not privation a repetition of what we experienced during the Lok Sabha elections. As for agrarian issues, we person resolved the contented of soyabean. Under the Bhavantar Yojana, we volition beryllium paying the quality betwixt the minimum enactment price and the marketplace complaint to farmers.

What happened during the Lok Sabha polls?

The fake communicative that the Modi authorities would alteration the Constitution and region preservation led to that (the results). But present radical cognize the reality. On the 1 hand, they talk astir the Constitution and reservation, and connected the different manus Rahul Gandhi goes overseas and speaks astir abolishing reservations (the Congress person had said the enactment could deliberation of ending reservations lone if the concern changes).

Do you deliberation you person been capable to flooded that Lok Sabha narrative?

Yes. We started respective improvement and payment schemes that radical are benefiting from. We person started schemes for sisters, brothers and farmers. We person not near retired anyone arsenic the authorities wants to bash thing for everyone.

In Pune, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to cadre to fortify Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. Is determination an contented with the CM post?

He did not accidental to bring Fadnavis back, helium said guarantee the triumph of Mahayuti and Fadnavis. And successful different rally, helium said we volition contention the polls nether the enactment of Eknath Shinde and post-poll we volition determine astir the CM’s position. Ensuring the triumph of Fadnavis means arsenic a candidate, arsenic helium is besides contesting the polls.

There are nary differences oregon problems betwixt us. Our lone people is to bring the Mahayuti authorities back.

In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, successful astatine slightest 20 seats determination are consecutive fights betwixt you and the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT). How bash you spot the contention betwixt the 2 Senas?

We defeated them during the precocious held Lok Sabha polls. Our onslaught complaint was amended and ballot stock increased. In the Lok Sabha polls, radical person already proved which is the existent Shiv Sena, and successful this election, radical volition further beryllium it.

Iss chunav mein ab doodh ka doodh aur paani ka paani ho jayega (In this election, the information volition emerge) arsenic radical are going to ballot for those who work. People request improvement and payment schemes.

You said you volition summation the Ladki Bahin Yojana’s monthly instalments from Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,100. The Opposition said they volition springiness Rs 3,000. How acold volition this competitory populism go?

This precise Opposition initially opposed the strategy and approached the tribunal against it. But erstwhile they realised this strategy has go a superhit… they stole the strategy from our agenda. They person copied each the promises from our manifesto and pasted it successful their manifesto.

We person already said that erstwhile the authorities is strengthened, we volition springiness it (the accrued instalments). And wherefore should we not? There is bully feedback. Women of mediocre families are getting help. Many women person started tiny businesses with this fiscal help. The government’s occupation is to springiness alleviation to the people.

We don’t marque canvass jumlas (gimmicks) similar them. They marque announcements successful their manifesto but aft coming to powerfulness they marque a U-turn by saying it was a spelling mistake. We don’t bash that. Hum chaadar dekh kar brace failane wale hain (we enactment wrong our limits).

So you volition not get into specified a contention beyond your electoral promises?

The authorities cannot beryllium tally by distributing wealth alone. We volition not get into immoderate contention connected this. But helping the mediocre and bringing them into the mainstream is the occupation of the government. It is our task to bring them retired of poorness and we volition proceed to bash that.

In Vidarbha and Marathwada, 2 regions that could determine the results, the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) are getting traction. How bash you spot it?

In the Lok Sabha polls, determination was a antithetic situation. That has changed now. Welfare schemes similar Ladki Bahin, escaped energy to farmers, and the different works of the authorities person fixed alleviation to people.

After the Lok Sabha polls, the Mahayuti said the consolidation of votes successful immoderate Muslim-dominated areas favoured the MVA.

The MVA frightened minorities and Dalits by stating that if Modi ji comes back, past determination would beryllium problems for them. But still, 140 crore radical stood down Modi ji. Here, they (the MVA) created fearfulness among Muslims voters and hence they voted for the Opposition. But we person not excluded Muslims from improvement oregon from the Ladki Bahin Yojana. Muslims are besides getting the payment of the schemes.

I deliberation they volition surely rethink and realise that the Congress has lone utilized them arsenic a ballot bank. We don’t privation to usage Muslims arsenic a ballot bank.

What is your presumption connected Maratha activistic Manoj Jarange-Patil opting retired of the polls? How volition it interaction the Mahayuti?

We person fixed to the Maratha assemblage what we had promised. We gave 10% preservation without touching the quota of different communities, specified arsenic OBCs, and formed the Justice (retd) Sandeep Shinde Committee for Kunbi certificates. So we volition get the payment (of Jarange-Patil withdrawing).

During Devendra ji’s tenure arsenic CM (from 2014 to 2019), helium gave preservation to Marathas and it was protected by america successful the Bombay High Court. But the authorities changed (in 2019) and the MVA could not support it successful the Supreme Court and it was their failure.

Now the assemblage besides thinks the authorities is making efforts for them. Earlier governments and Opposition leaders (of the MVA) lone utilized the Marathas for ballot slope authorities for respective years. They kept the Marathas deprived for their ain governmental benefits. Now, the Marathas volition besides deliberation astir it.

Fadnavis made a connection that an effort was made to decorativeness him ‘politically’ during the MVA government. You were successful the authorities astatine the time. What was that plan?

Yes it is true. (The MVA) planned to jailhouse 4 to 5 BJP leaders. If they would person been arrested, the BJP would person been breached and the MVA would person been strengthened. But I did not let it to happen.