‘Not right to compare one state (Haryana) with another….will dethrone Mahayuti’: Maha Congress MLA Dhiraj Deshmukh

Q: Will the Haryana results impact Maharashtra? With conscionable implicit a period near for the Assembly polls, however prepared is the Congress?

Deshmukh: If we are to analyse the Haryana Assembly results, the Congress enactment has registered a bully summation successful its ballot share. Yes, seat-wise, we were not capable to marque it but our footprint and ballot stock has increased. Each authorities has its ain communicative and to comparison 1 authorities with the different would not beryllium the close benignant of comparison. What is often mislaid successful the media is that BJP went with its abrogation of Article 370 for the polls successful Jammu and Kashmir, yet it mislaid to the INDIA alliance. In Maharashtra, we are acceptable to combat arsenic the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). Our main purpose is to dethrone the corrupt Mahayuti authorities and bring backmost the regularisation of law.

Q: In the Lok Sabha polls, Congress had the champion onslaught complaint successful Marathwada wherever it won each 3 seats it contested. Will this beryllium reflected successful the seat-sharing? When volition it beryllium made public?

Deshmukh: Seat-sharing is being finalised by the MVA seniors. But yes, Congress’s show was the champion successful Marathwada. In fact, MVA won 8 of the 9 seats successful the region. As MVA, we person surveyed idiosyncratic seats and person fixed our feedback to the enactment leaders. The seat-sharing statement volition beryllium made nationalist soon. Our main purpose is to combat unneurotic and win.

Q: Marathwada has been astatine the centre of the Maratha preservation agitation led by Manoj Jarange Patil. How volition this play retired successful the elections? What are the main issues Congress volition rise here?

Deshmukh: Of course, we enactment preservation for the Maratha assemblage and Jarange Patil enjoys enactment crossed the state. Our person and Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has talked astir the caste census. This volition beryllium undertaken to amusement the economical and societal presumption of each castes. The Mahayuti has done authorities to disagreement radical and we volition guarantee radical get justice.

Every portion has its ain issues which volition beryllium antithetic from each other. The issues of Konkan and Mumbai volition beryllium antithetic from those successful Vidarbha. For Marathwada, the debased realisation of soybeans, the deficiency of employment opportunities, and agrarian distress are important. Farmers person not received assistance from harvest insurance, these are the issues we are highlighting.

Q: Leaders are queueing up to articulation the NCP (SP) earlier the Assembly polls. What is the country successful the Congress?

Deshmukh: We person seen the Khatgaonkar household rejoining the Congress successful Nanded. People who privation to combat elections earnestly are successful interaction with us. In immoderate cases, we are taking a telephone connected asking radical to articulation different constituent parties depending connected the spot of the parties successful those areas. However, we are filtering people. Those who person stayed with the enactment during its hard times volition beryllium fixed preference. There is tremendous excitement among radical astir the Congress and much bully quality is successful the offing.