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1.Farmers' leader Kishore Tiwari also said that the spiralling prices of essential commodities and employment were the main issues for the October 13 assembly polls. "The agrarian crisis is an issue, but more than that is the ever-increasing prices of essential commodities and the closure of leading industries in the Vidarbha region,'' Tiwari said.2.He said that while his organisation was emphasising the rehabilitation of some 7,000-odd widows, it was a matter of concern that the economy of Vidarbha had collapsed due to the closure of major industries in the region. "No new jobs have been created. Furthermore, the situation has been aggravated following the closure of existing units. The government was not serious on the job front,'' Tiwari said.
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MUMBAI: Neither the acute shortage of power, the deteriorating law-and-order situation nor the worst-ever agrarian crisis are expected to hit the Congress-led Democratic Front (DF) government as hard as the spiralling prices of essential commodities and failure to create new jobs.
Whether in Yavatmal, which has the dubious distinction of being the district with the largest number of farmer suicides, Jalgaon, the hometown of President Pratibha Patil, or Nanded, hometown of chief minister Ashok Chavan, the main focus of the opposition is on the complete failure of the government to tackle the spiralling prices of essential commodities and the creation of new jobs.
BJP leader Eknath Khadse, who is contesting from Muktainagar in Jalgaon district, said the people in rural areas have now accepted the fact that they have to live with massive load-shedding. Muktainagar was once represented by Pratibha Patil. "In all my election meetings, there has been no reaction to the power shortage situation, but the villagers are unable to bear the high prices of essential commodities. Whenever we talk of rising prices, there is a response from the electorate,'' Khadse said.
A finance and irrigation minister during the Sena-BJP's rule, Khadse was first elected to the legislative assembly in 1990. "Certainly we are shocked. We felt that the power shortage and agrarian crisis would be the main issues, but at the grassroots level the situation is different,'' Khadse said.
BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said the price of wheat has increased from Rs 9 per kg in 2004 to Rs 18 in 2009, while the increases for rice, sugar, tur dal and edible oil range from 50 to 200% in the same period. "In our opinion, the Congress-led government has not taken stringent measures to contain the prices of essential commodities,'' Bhandari said.
Whether in Yavatmal, which has the dubious distinction of being the district with the largest number of farmer suicides, Jalgaon, the hometown of President Pratibha Patil, or Nanded, hometown of chief minister Ashok Chavan, the main focus of the opposition is on the complete failure of the government to tackle the spiralling prices of essential commodities and the creation of new jobs.
BJP leader Eknath Khadse, who is contesting from Muktainagar in Jalgaon district, said the people in rural areas have now accepted the fact that they have to live with massive load-shedding. Muktainagar was once represented by Pratibha Patil. "In all my election meetings, there has been no reaction to the power shortage situation, but the villagers are unable to bear the high prices of essential commodities. Whenever we talk of rising prices, there is a response from the electorate,'' Khadse said.
A finance and irrigation minister during the Sena-BJP's rule, Khadse was first elected to the legislative assembly in 1990. "Certainly we are shocked. We felt that the power shortage and agrarian crisis would be the main issues, but at the grassroots level the situation is different,'' Khadse said.
BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said the price of wheat has increased from Rs 9 per kg in 2004 to Rs 18 in 2009, while the increases for rice, sugar, tur dal and edible oil range from 50 to 200% in the same period. "In our opinion, the Congress-led government has not taken stringent measures to contain the prices of essential commodities,'' Bhandari said.
Farmers' leader Kishore Tiwari also said that the spiralling prices of essential commodities and employment were the main issues for the October 13 assembly polls. "The agrarian crisis is an issue, but more than that is the ever-increasing prices of essential commodities and the closure of leading industries in the Vidarbha region,'' Tiwari said.
He said that while his organisation was emphasising the rehabilitation of some 7,000-odd widows, it was a matter of concern that the economy of Vidarbha had collapsed due to the closure of major industries in the region. "No new jobs have been created. Furthermore, the situation has been aggravated following the closure of existing units. The government was not serious on the job front,'' Tiwari said.
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He said that while his organisation was emphasising the rehabilitation of some 7,000-odd widows, it was a matter of concern that the economy of Vidarbha had collapsed due to the closure of major industries in the region. "No new jobs have been created. Furthermore, the situation has been aggravated following the closure of existing units. The government was not serious on the job front,'' Tiwari said.
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