Once again slamming the BJP, with whom it shares power in the state and Centre, the Shiv Sena accused its ally of being anti-farmer and trying to woo industries from Mumbai to Gujarat.
Once again slamming the BJP, with whom it shares power in the state and Centre, the Shiv Sena accused its ally of being anti-farmer and trying to woo industries from Mumbai to Gujarat.
The Sena had opposed the Narendra Modi government's land acquisition bill on grounds of it being "anti-farmer" and abstained from the vote in Lok Sabha.
An editorial on Thursday in the Sena organ Saamna, which has party president Uddhav Thackeray as the editor and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut as the executive editor, noted that the central government had to work hard to approve the bill despite being in a majority. "…some political give and take must have happened," it said, adding that the Shiv Sena had firmly stood with farmers.
"The Shiv Sena will never support any anti-farmer law…" the editorial said, adding that "when the noose was tied around the farmers' neck, the Shiv Sena was not among those which rushed to pull the lever."
The Sena said that the land acquisition bill would hurt the already stressed farmers even more. "The Shiv Sena does not put up a pretence. The Shiv Sena will never commit the sin of seeking votes from farmers, showing dreams to them, giving massive assurances and when in power, taking their land away without their permission," the party said, adding that however, they were not anti-business or anti-industry.
"…but how will we agree if the necks of farmers are to be cut for the gardens of a few industrialists to bloom with their blood?" the editorial questioned.
"There is a conspiracy underfoot to take industries from Mumbai to elsewhere," the Shiv Sena said, in a not so direct reference to the BJP's Gujarat government wooing away businesses from Maharashtra and Mumbai. Pointing to the city's contribution in the country's economy, the editorial warned that there was no need for anyone to preach about industrial and business development to Mumbai and Maharashtra.
It said Maharashtrians were hard working and lived with self-respect, choosing to commit suicide for pending loans worth a few thousands instead of becoming a "big bull" in the share market like Harshad bhai (Harshad Mehta).
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