THE leaders of Maha Vikas Aghadi(MVA),on Sunday,claimed that the seven-day winter session in Nagpur was just an “election jumla” by the State Government.The Government ignored the issues of Vidarbha region in this session. While addressing a press conference in Shiv Sena(UBT)office in Vidhan Bhavan premises on Sunday,Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar blamed that this Winter Session was Mumbai centric and majority bills and decisions were taken keeping the upcoming municipal corporation elections in mind.

 

“The issues discussed in these seven days were more about Mumbai than Vidarbha. State Government wants to lure the voters to win the upcoming civic elections in the State,” said Wadettiwar.“Nothing concrete output came upduring the session, which concluded on Sunday,” he added. “This Winter Session was held to distribute funds to citizens and to get their votes in the upcoming Municipal Corporation elections. Tabling supplementary demands in both houses was the on ly option they had to distribute funds before elections,” claimed Bhaskar Jadhav,MLA from Shiv Sena (UBT) during the press confer ence.“For this,the State Government tabled Rs 75,286crore supplementary demands in both houses in this winter session and approved it within just two days.

 

There after,the behaviour of the government changed and they just wasted time in the remaining session,”claimed Jadhav. “Opposition was aware of all these political stunts of the Mahayuti Government, there fore we boy cotted the tea party of the government before the commencement of the Winter Session,”said Jadhav.Jayantrao Patil,Senior leader and MLA from Nationalist Congress Party(SP) said, “Vidarbha issues should have been the centre stage but the State Government gave no space to Vidarbha in these sev en-day sessions which is very unfortunate“In last three years, 190 agreements were made between various companies and Maharashtra Industries Development Corporation (MIDC)but the State has no data on how many jobs it has created after the agreements.

 

Even majority of these agreements area land acquisition level in the last three years,”claimed Jayant Patil.“It shows that the government has failed to convert the agreements in to job creation in Vidarbha.It is the biggest gap in the policies of the state government which should be addressed as soon as possible,”explained Patil.The NCP(SP) leader also raised the issue of increasing drug manufacturing and consumption in Maharashtra during the press conference.He said that the government has failed to curb the drug menace in the state.Sunil Prabhu,Satej Patil and Sachin Ahirwe real so present during the press conference.