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Vidarbha: Now demand for Maharashtra division

  •   Tue, Jul 30 2013 11:04:04 PM

New Delhi, July 30 (IANS): Amid speculation that the Congress Working Committee (CWC) could accede to the demand for Telangana, a Congress MP has asked party chief Sonia Gandhi to consider a separate state for Vidarba.

Vilas Muttemwar, Congress MP from Nagpur, told IANS Tuesday that he has written to Sonia Gandhi demanding that the party leadership consider demand for a separate state of Vidarbha out of Maharashtra.

"The demand of statehood for Vidarbha is stronger and older than Telangana," Muttemwar, a seven-time member of the Lok Sabha, told IANS.

He said that the first state reorganisation commission had made a recommendation for Vidarbha statehood but the then leadership in the region decided to join Maharashtra, following "intervention of the then party high command and assurance that their interests will be protected".

"No promises have been fulfilled. There have been 45,000 farmer suicides (in Vidarbha). Thousands have died due to malnutrition. There is no industry," Muttemwar said.

He said there was a controversy over the status of the proposed capital of Telangana but there was no issues about a capital for Vidarbha.

He said they were demanding creation of Vidarbha state by including 11 districts of Maharashtra. Vidarbha region holds 21.3 percent of the total population of Maharashtra.

 
  

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  • Ank, Bangalore

    Sat, Oct 12 2013

    There is no question of dividing karnataka becoz overall development of this states nook and corner is appreciated throughout the country, and the states should not be divided becoz already we many states in India have got rivalry and there wud be rivalry btw many states then.
    For example karnataka - tamil nadu water dispute alone has accounted to hundreds of crores of money wastage and kodagu , tulu nadu if divided , there is a possibility of such disputes as these bcom upper riparian states so why get into whole such mess and too many states wud actually hinder the growth bcoz of possibility of mere confusion. unity is sacrificed to a very great extent if divided.
    If you believe that all states would prosper after division it should have already prospered, there no strong logic that after division states will be fine.
    INDIA WILL BE INDIA EVEN IF GOD RULES THE COUNTRY

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  • Aloka Nath, Bengaluru

    Wed, Jul 31 2013

    It will be Great Indian Union of 1000 states.

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  • Ashok Kotian, Mangalore / Mumbai

    Wed, Jul 31 2013

    If it is left to these politicians, they will keep on breaking India for their petty gains. Beware Indians.

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  • Ernest, Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 01 2013

    Breaking doesn't mean separating.
    Making a single state with better governance. The whole of Maharashtra cannot be governed from Mumbai. Hence, Vidarbha having its own identity as a state would prosper. Farmers will have better facilities and the region would grow. Still, with more states India would be a much better developed country to live. The demand for separation is from the people/public not politicians. So please be positive.

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  • Stany Dsouza, Sharjah - Mangalore

    Wed, Jul 31 2013

    We need Tulu nadu

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  • rasheed, bhatkal

    Wed, Jul 31 2013

    What about karnataka sepration, we can create "konkan nadu" seperate from karnataka.

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