To keep the flock of its MLAs together, who are seemingly miffed over the pendency of developmental works in their constituencies, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has now devised a mechanism to review the stagnant public works. The NCP seemingly came to know about the pulsating issue during the one-day workshop which was organised on Wednesday to guide the MLAs and MLCs regarding the upcoming budget session.
๐ก๐๐ฃ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ
The event brainstormed the party's strategy on cornering the State Government on the floor of the house. All senior leaders, including Assembly leader of opposition Ajit Pawar and State party President Jayant Patil, were present. During the meeting, the leaders were told by the MLAs that the new government has stopped ongoing projects or delayed proposals of various works in their constituencies. During these conversations, leaders also sensed that the MLAs are being contacted by senior ministers of the State Government to clear their works. This could increase personal rapport of MLAs with ministers. Looking at such multiple examples, party leadership immediately decided to address the issue.
๐ก๐๐ฃ'๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ผ๐-๐๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐น๐
Now, the NCP has asked two of its party office-bearers to be assigned totally for following up on works proposed by the MLAs. An officer in office of LoP Ajit Pawar is also 'unofficially' given this charge to help the legislators in clearing their works at the Mantralaya level. This officer and two party office-bearers will keep updating the MLAs as well as Ajit Pawar and Jayant Patil about the follow up work every week.
๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ผ๐๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐น๐
โDuring the Maha Vikas Aghadi government, the Deputy Chief Minister's Office was very alert regarding public works in our constituencies. But the new government is keeping many of our proposals in cold storage. We told this to our leaders in the meeting,โ said Raju Navghare, MLA from Vasmat, Hingoli. โThey (leaders) have assured us that they will look into it,โ he added.
The division in Shiv Sena is blamed on the unavailability of Uddhav Thackeray to his MLA. The Shinde-Fadnavis government is reportedly trying to get many Congress and NCP MLAs on board to weaken the opposition completely. On this backdrop, any reason for disturbance of MLAs has to be addressed immediately.
๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ ๐๐๐, ๐๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ท๐ถ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ
โWe are here to help our MLAs. The workshop was to guide them about how to raise questions, how to speak on specific subjects in budget. If MLAs are needing a hand to get their work done in Mantralaya, then we are here to extend it. Media should not read too much into it,โ said Ajit Pawar after the meeting.
Slamming the ruling dispensation, he said, โWe were also in power but we never stopped or purposely delayed development in constituencies of MLAs from other parties. But the Shinde-Fadnavis government is trying to stall public works in our constituencies.โ
