For about a month, the state government bombarded electronic
and print media with their ads projecting Maharashtra as a No.1 state. The government
spent huge money on these ads trying to convince us of their `successful’
tenure! The state is in huge debt of approx. three lac crores but the
government had no hesitation in spending crores of taxpayers’ money for their
election campaigns!
For the government that is in power for fifteen
consecutive years, it shouldn’t have to ideally tom-tom so much about their
‘achievements’. Their governance should speak for itself! The facts and figures
should say it before their ads do! But what their ads projected and what they
hid will be amply clear with just a glance at these substantiated facts! Once
one of the top states in agriculture, Maharashtra doesn’t even feature in top
five in the segment today. The unemployment rate is constantly on the rise and
so are the farmers’ suicides, debts, scams and crime rates, just to name a few!
So, yes No.1 in these areas, for sure!
In Aurangabad yesterday, CM Prithivraj Chavan regretted
about functioning of the PWD department, indirectly hinting at NCP Minister
Chagan Bhujbal’s performance. There were many things on CM’s list “that could
and should have been done but were not done’’, primarily due to internal
conflicts and politics of NCP-Congress. Looking back, the Alliance spent these
fifteen years only in corruption, one-upmanship, accusing each other of `policy
paralysis’, indecisiveness and so on! What they have accomplished in the last
15 years will truly make a very interesting topic for research!
So coming back to their ads with `No.1’ claims, should
we believe in what they want us to? No, we need to get a real picture- a picture
that will speak more than sad thousands words and scary statistics!
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