Maharashtra opposition split against ruling
Congress, NCP
Monday March 11, 2013 06:08:05 PM,
IANS
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Mumbai: Separate
agitations by a divided opposition against the ruling
Congress-Nationalist Congress Party marked the opening day of the
budget session of the Maharashtra legislature here Monday.
Shortly before the start of the legislature session Monday
morning, the main opposition parties Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv
Sena legislators clanged empty water pots and carried bundles of
hay to highlight the water scarcity and drought in the state.
Women legislators carried steel pots and raised slogans demanding
water while their male colleagues flaunted large bundles of hay,
demanding fodder for starving cattle in the drought-hit areas.
Another major opposition party, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS),
sidetracked the drought and raised the issue of Marathi-speaking
people.
Raising slogans, MNS legislators tried to stop the vehicle of
Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, demanding restoration of
regional languages like Marathi in the central competitive
examinations.
They also raised the issue of toll collections and bad roads
across the state against which the MNS has been campaigning since
the past six months.
Later, the governor addressed the joint sitting of the legislature
and highlighted various achievements of the government and the
challenges confronting it.
Sankaranarayanan's chief concern was the failure of the monsoon
for the second consecutive year in many parts of the state, which
has created water scarcity in 11,801 villages.
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