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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Battle for Maharashtra: Bread and butter at the heart of the political discourse in Vidarbha -CL Manoj

Battle for Maharashtra: Bread and butter at the heart of the political discourse in Vidarbha -CL Manoj

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published Published on Apr 3, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 3, 2019
-The Economic Times

Vidarbha has over 20% of the state’s population and is the land of perennial agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides.

Ten Lok Sabha seats are up for grabs in Vidarbha. In 2014, the BJP-Shiv Sena combine delivered a body blow to this Congress base (with NCP fighting separately then) by sweeping all the 10 seats. The BJP won 44 of the 62 assembly segments of the region without an alliance with Shiv Sena. With the Congress and NCP regrouping this time, BJP-Sena ending their bickering and with the Modi government and many BJP-Sena MPs facing incumbency tests, the real question here is, will the saffron alliance sweep the region again or will the Congress-NCP make a dent?

This election is taking place in the backdrop of the post-2014 shift of Maharashtra’s political ‘power-centre’ from the traditional Western region to Vidarbha, particularly Nagpur, the home-pitch of union minister Nitin Gadkari and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, besides being the RSS headquarters.

Comprising 11 districts of Nagpur and Amaravati divisions, Vidarbha has over 20% of the state’s population and is the land of perennial agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides. Barring Nagpur and Chandrapur, where the development work is concentrated, the rest of the districts are agrarian and complain of disparity in development. The once simmering Vidarbha statehood movement appears to have lost steam as all major political parties have sidestepped the issue, leaving only a bunch of small local parties to adopt the cause.

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The Economic Times, 2 April, 2019, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/elections/lok-sabha/maharashtra/battle-for-maharashtra-bread-and-butter-at-the-heart-of-the-political-discourse-in-vidarbha


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