BJP will create a Vidardha state if elected to power - Gadkari

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/BJP-will-create-Vidarbha-if-it-comes-to-power-Nitin-Gadkari/articleshow/27309521.cms

BJP will create Vidarbha if it comes to power: Nitin Gadkari It was BJP-led NDA which had formed the new states of Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh during its rule, Gadkari said. NAGPUR: BJP leader Nitin Gadkari on Friday said here that if his party came to power at the Centre, it would create the separate state of Vidarbha. It was BJP-led NDA which had formed the new states of Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh during its rule, he said. Gadkari himself hails from Nagpur, the main city of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra. He arrived here today and met Ashish Deshmukh who had launched an indefinite strike for Vidarbha state on December 6. Deshmukh received lime juice at Gadkari's hands to end his fast. State BJP president Davendra Phadanvis, a vocal supporter of the demand for a separate state, was also present. Ashish, who is the son of former Maharashtra Minister and former state Congress chief Ranjeet Deshmukh, had earlier said that now was the right time for carving out the new state in the wake of the Centre's nod for Telangana.

Why do we need more states?

[Sachin=GOD]

Why do we need more states?

because a lot of the existing states are too big to be efficiently managed.

[Yoda-esque]

Jai Maharashtra

[asterix]

Over Shiv Sena's dead body...

[Clarke]

After the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre announced the formation of Telangana last Wednesday, people took to the streets in support of similar demands in Bodo-dominated areas of Assam and Gorkha-dominated areas of West Bengal. But there was no such spontaneous outburst by the people of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra. It was business as usual in Nagpur, Akola, Amravati, Chandrapur and other major urban centres of the region. Demands for a separate Vidharba state came to the fore in the 1970s. One reason why there is no popular agitation for Vidarbha state is that the political leadership of the region—except for the Shiv Sena who opposes the idea of a separate state—has lost credibility with the people. They have become wary of the cynical ways in which politicians from the Congress and the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), the two dominant political forces in the region, tried to exploit the issue for decades to keep themselves politically relevant. Though Marathi is the common language across Maharashtra, Vidarbha has always had a separate identity. There are references to the kingdom of Vidarbha in Kalidas’s Shakuntala and in the Mahabharata. During the British Raj, Vidarbha was not part of Bombay presidency but came under Central Provinces and Berar or Varhad, another name for Vidarbha, with its capital at Nagpur. The State Reorganisation Commission had recommended in 1955 that Vidarbha and Telangana should be separate states. Leaders heading the agitation for a separate Vidarbha agreed to be part of Samyukta Maharashtra or United Maharashtra in 1953, when they signed the Nagpur Pact. Vidarbha was assured of equitable development. Although Vidarbha is endowed with mineral and forest wealth, fertile soil and assured rain compared with other parts of the state, it has always remained one of the poorest regions of the Maharashtra, infamous for the suicides of cotton farmers. This is despite Vidarbha generating more than 30% of Maharashtra’s power and having all of its coal deposits. According to state’s economic survey for fiscal 2013, out of 11 districts in Vidarbha, only one had more average per capita income than the state average—Nagpur at Rs.1.06 lakh versus Rs.95,339. This is despite the state having had three chief ministers from the region, including Vasantrao Naik, who held the post for a record 11 years. Many leaders from region including Praful Patel, Vasantrao Sathe and N.K.P. Salve have held important portfolios in the central cabinet. Interestingly, these leaders are never vociferous in their demand for a separate Vidarbha when they are in power, but start making noises about this once they lose their position either in the party or the government. The latest example is Nagpur MP Vilas Muttemwar who was hoping to find a place in the June cabinet reshuffle but didn’t. He dashed off a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi demanding a separate Vidarbha when it became clear that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was on the verge of accepting the demand for a separate Telengana. The former Congress MP from Chandrapur, Naresh Puglia, has talked about forming a coordination committee of political parties and civil society groups to agitate for a separate Vidarbha under the leadership of well-known social activist and Magsaysay award winner Prakash Amte, who has done pioneering work in public health in the tribal areas. That’s because the political leaders themselves have no credibility. An argument forwarded by the supporters of the demand is that a separate state it can get more funds for development from the central government. Their argument is that while deciding on the share of each state in central funds, the Finance Commission uses the so-called ‘income distance’ method—the lower the per capita income of the state compared with the national average, the higher is its share in central funds. Since Maharashtra is among states with the highest per capita income in the country, it gets a lower share in central funds. Vidarbha would get more by virtue of its poorer economic status, they say. They also argue that if separate a Vidarbha was formed, the rest of Maharashtra would have more funds for its own development which it currently has to spend on Vidarbha. But a separate state doesn’t make political sense for the two national parties that dominate the politics of the region. Of a total 62 members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) from the region, Congress has 24. If a separate state of was created, it would lose the dominant position in its alliance with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in Maharashtra and be forced to concede the post of chief minister to the NCP. Similarly, the BJP is in alliance with the Shiv Sena which is against a separate Vidarbha. With the recent exit of the Janata Dal (United) from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) that it heads, the BJP can’t risk alienating one more ally by backing the separate Vidarbha demand.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/52vKl0XRwNbhD5cH1HrkfJ/Separate-Vidarbha-makes-economic-sense-but-lacks-political-b.html

[gattaca]

Bjp also has the oppurtunity of telangana now that congress is dodging telangana.just for votes they are created a draft bill which will never make to parliament.

[theindian]

Why do we need more states?

As the current situations shows, BJP is highly important to come and lead the nation. If its not done in this election then we all can just imagine what would happened in next 5 Years! The level of corruption is just on peak yet, we also seen the governance of BJP the works which they done. Still the situation is totally different, Yeah! I agree that there were various negative impacts we had also seen in their governance but peoples of all category could alive that time...as in this situation inflation is just murmuring all the peoples. Anyhow, I just want to say that please elect whom who respect the country and the peoples and believes in democracy.:two_thumbs_up: Hope for the best!