Mahayuti all set for ‘Mahavijay’

 

The battle for the assembly election has begun. The Mahayuti of Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, Republican Party, Rayat Kranti is all set for the grand victory in this election. There is no doubt that the Mahayuti government will be back in power on the basis of the welfare schemes of the Modi government and the schemes planned by the Mahayuti government to speed up the overall development of the state. After securing 2 lakh more votes in Lok Sabha elections Maha Vikas Aghadi was on cloud nine. The success achieved by Maha Vikas Aghadi by misleading the voters in the Lok Sabha election campaign has now started fading. Even the voters themselves have started realizing that they have been cheated.

After correcting the errors in the Lok Sabha election campaign, the leaders of the Mahayuti are now facing the battle of the assembly elections with full confidence. The voters of Haryana have made it very clear that this false propaganda during Lok Sabha elections will not work anymore in the assembly elections. In this election, Mahayuti is going to the voters on the basis of only and only development works. Mahayuti has given its account of the work done in the last two and a half years and also the work done in 5 years before that when Devendra Fadnavis was the Chief Minister to the public. The Mahayuti is going towards victory by showing its progress book of development works. Mahayuti has also given a record of mismanagement and inefficiency of Uddhav Thackeray government to the public. Uddhav Thackeray, who was not even meeting his own MLA’s, has in a way set an example when he was the Chief Minister of how the government should not be run.

While running the government, the leader is expected to take the decision or make the policies not only based on the current situation but also with an eye on the future. Congress led government never showed such a vision while in power in the state for 15 consecutive years. Devendra Fadnavis on the other hand, thinking about the next 50 years, decided to start the metro in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur in 2015. The Fadnavis government did not just stop at the decision level, but the actual financial provisions required for the metro in these three cities were completed on a priority basis with the help of the Modi government. As a result two routes, one from Swargate to Pimpri and second from Vanaz to Ramwadi have been completed in Pune. Punekars who were tired of traffic congestion, have started availing the metro service in large numbers. If the decision of Metro had been taken 20-25 years ago, the people of Pune would have been freed from the traffic congestion long back.

BRT project of intra-city bus service was started when Congress was in power in Pune Municipal Corporation. However, due to lack of planning during the implementation, the project was a complete debacle. BRT service is running very efficiently in Ahmedabad. The ruling congress was not able to plan like that. Uddhav Thackeray also lacks vision for development. Uddhav Thackeray, who could not initiate a single project for the benefit of Maharashtra during his tenure as the Chief Minister, showed his narrow-mindedness by suspending the Mumbai Metro. It was because of Uddhav Thackeray that the work of Mumbai Metro stopped for 2 years. As a result, the cost of Mumbai Metro increased by almost 5 thousand crores. If the Metro had not been suspended, the Mumbai Metro would have started much earlier. When Devendra Fadnvis was a chief minister, he also announced Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Highway along with Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur Metro. The highway has become a catalyst for the development of the state. Infrastructure projects like Atal Setu, Coastal Road in Mumbai have made the lives of common citizens comfortable.

Mahayuti Government has recently started ‘Ladki Bahin Yojana’ for women. This scheme, which is very beneficial for women from the weaker section of the society, has generated a tremendous response. Due to the popularity of this scheme, the leaders of Maha Vikas Aghadi are extremely worried. That’s the reason why fake propaganda is constantly going on against the scheme. While opposing the Mahayuti government Maha Vikas Agadhi played the dirty politics of stopping schemes like ‘Ladki Bahin’. The Maha Vikas Aghadi even took an extreme step by going to court against this scheme. The Mahayuti government has taken revolutionary decisions for farmers. By taking decisions like crop insurance in 1 rupee, free electricity to 42 lakh farmers, the Mahayuti government had proved to farmers that this government is really working for them. Due to fall in soybean prices, the Modi government has decided to purchase 13 lakh ton of soybean in the state at the rate of Rs 4,892 per quintal. Due to the fall in the price of soybean, the farmers suffered huge losses last year. The Mahayuti government has given compensation amounting to Rs 2,398 crore to around 50 lakh farmers. The Mahayuti is facing the election on the basis of these concrete development works. In 2019, voters gave an undisputed verdict in favour of the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance. But Uddhav Thackeray betrayed the voters and joined hands with Congress and Sharad Pawar just to get the post of Chief Minister. In this election voters will definitely teach Uddhav Thackeray a lesson for that betrayal.

 

 

(Article Pre-Published in Times of India Online – 28 October 2024)

Keshav Upadhye, Chief Spokesperson