P Chidambaram writes: Maharashtra is the prize

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Maharashtra is the prize Maharashtra’s system is excessively invaluable a prize to beryllium neglected oregon mislaid nether immoderate circumstances.

P Chidambaram

Nov 17, 2024 05:18 IST First published on: Nov 17, 2024 astatine 07:18 IST

The contiguous authorities of Maharashtra was built by the Congress Party. Since May 1, 1960, erstwhile the authorities was carved retired of the State of Bombay, determination person been 20 main ministers (some repeated). All but 5 of them belonged to the Indian National Congress. (I number Shri Sharad Pawar who erstwhile represented a breakaway group, the INC (Socialist), arsenic a Congress main minister). The 5 who were from a enactment opposed to the Congress were Mr Manohar Joshi, Mr Narayan Rane, Mr Devendra Fadnavis, Mr Uddhav Thackeray and Mr Eknath Shinde. Between the five, they occupied the spot for astir 15 years retired of the 64 years, 6 months and 17 days. A main curate from the Congress enactment was astatine the helm during the different years.

The past elections to the State Assembly were held successful November 2019. In the past 5 years, determination person been 3 main ministers.  Of them, Mr Fadnavis and Mr Shinde are with the MAHAYUTI and Mr Thackeray is with the MVA. The BJP has been successful powerfulness since October 31, 2014 but for 2 years and 214 days betwixt November 2019 and June 2022 erstwhile a conjugation of Shiv Sena, Congress and NCP (MVA) was successful office. The BJP engineered defections successful the Shiv Sena and the NCP, toppled the MVA authorities and installed its ain conjugation authorities (MAHAYUTI).

Elections are underway and polling is connected November 20, 2024. I americium reminded of a information enshrined successful Shakespeare’s words: “….The bully is oft interred with their bones.” Nobody votes for past glory. The contiguous predetermination is astir wherever Maharashtra finds itself contiguous and what volition beryllium its future.

State of the Economy

As acold arsenic the system is concerned, undoubtedly it was the Congress that built Maharashtra to its No.1 presumption successful industrialization but the authorities has slipped successful caller years connected assorted parameters of ‘development’: The numbers talk for themselves:

Maharashtra is the prize 

Worsening Unemployment 

Youth unemployment complaint is 10.8 per cent. Urban women unemployment complaint is 11.1 per cent. Most employment successful Maharashtra is self-employment. Hundreds of thousands of applicants pursuit the fewer authorities jobs that are advertised from clip to time. Over 11 lakh candidates each applied for 18,300 posts of constabulary constable/driver and 4,600 posts of Talati (a colony officer). Job creating world-class businesses, wooed by Maharashtra and aft having agreed to beryllium located successful the state, person been persuaded by the powers-that-be to determination to Gujarat. Examples are the Tata-Airbus transport craft mill and the Vedanta-Foxconn semi-conductor factory. The GIFT metropolis is being forcefully promoted with peculiar laws and privileges to rob Mumbai of its pridefulness of spot arsenic the commercialized superior of India.

Gross Mismanagement 

Let maine exemplify the parlous authorities of the system of Maharashtra with 2 references. In Maharashtra, that has 4 chiseled regions, determination is simply a widening disagreement betwixt districts. The precise affluent districts are Mumbai, Pune and Thane. At the different extremity are the districts of Nandurbar, Washim, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Hingoli and Buldhana. The nett territory home merchandise (NDDP) of the precise affluent districts is 3 times that of the precise mediocre districts.  The quality successful the per capita NDDP has widened from Rs 97,357 successful 2011-12 to Rs 2.4 lakhs successful 2022-23. This means that the authorities has shown utter disregard for equitable improvement of the state.

Another illustration is the plight of the farmers. In 2023, Maharashtra recorded 2,851 cases of termination by farmers. Take the cardinal government’s argumentation connected onions. First, it banned exports. Following protests, it lifted the prohibition but imposed a minimum export terms and an export work of 40 per cent. The effect was bulb farmers suffered immense losses and India mislaid its stock of the planetary market. Against a mean export of 15 lakh tonnes by July, this twelvemonth the export was 2.6 lakh tonnes.

Examples tin beryllium multiplied astir the gross mismanagement of the state’s economy. The boast of a double-engine authorities is an bare boast. The archetypal motor is driving the bid to Gujarat and the 2nd motor is simply a deadweight. If the elector is simply a purely economical man/woman, the elector volition ballot for candidates and parties who volition enactment Maharashtra’s system archetypal supra each different considerations. Maharashtra’s system is excessively invaluable a prize to beryllium neglected oregon mislaid nether immoderate circumstances.

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