Thursday, December 24, 2009
After Telegana, what next ? Vidarbha ?
Some say Vidarbha. There are more than 32,000 farmers' suicides in Maharashtra in a decade, of which 70% being in the 11 districts of Vidarbha region.
Calls for a separate state of Vidarbha are partly due to the alleged continuous negligence from the state govt of Maharashtra towards this region and the alleged incompetent political leaderships in Vidarbha.
Shiv Sena oppose the creation of Vidarbha, so perhaps it is "Nagpur State nixed by Marathi hicks".
IMO: Riots and public disturbances usually cause more problems than end them. I'm very doubtful about all this changing state boundaries as being a cure-all for traditional problems. In those terms, the next thing might be to split the state of Goa into North Goa and South Goa and then give North Goa to Maharashtra, a clean tidy state which could solve the Mapusa litter problem etc. Also we would not need to worry about Goan tourists. Doubtless Sri Ram Sena would put them in their place. South Goa could then be annexed by Karnataka who could 'pursuade' the locals to speak Kannada instead of Goan. But it is clear to me that some of these alterations will not work in practice.
Calls for a separate state of Vidarbha are partly due to the alleged continuous negligence from the state govt of Maharashtra towards this region and the alleged incompetent political leaderships in Vidarbha.
Shiv Sena oppose the creation of Vidarbha, so perhaps it is "Nagpur State nixed by Marathi hicks".
IMO: Riots and public disturbances usually cause more problems than end them. I'm very doubtful about all this changing state boundaries as being a cure-all for traditional problems. In those terms, the next thing might be to split the state of Goa into North Goa and South Goa and then give North Goa to Maharashtra, a clean tidy state which could solve the Mapusa litter problem etc. Also we would not need to worry about Goan tourists. Doubtless Sri Ram Sena would put them in their place. South Goa could then be annexed by Karnataka who could 'pursuade' the locals to speak Kannada instead of Goan. But it is clear to me that some of these alterations will not work in practice.
# posted by uv : 3:09 PM
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