The political temperature is high regarding the assembly elections in Maharashtra. The main contest in the elections is between the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Mahavikas Aghadi alliance. Regarding the assembly elections, NCP (SP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule says that the people of Maharashtra are behind us with all their strength and we will give all our strength for the people in the elections. We have fought against inflation, unemployment and corruption.
While speaking exclusively to Aaj Tak, Supriya Sule said that two things are coming to the fore. When we started the Lok Sabha elections, we had no party or symbol. But now the people of Maharashtra are backing the party and the symbol with full force in the assembly elections. And we will fight with all our might for the mother, father and people of Maharashtra in the Assembly. Today in Maharashtra a strong and stable government is needed to fight inflation, unemployment and corruption. Maharashtra has always been number one in the country. We are all fighting for it and I think all the people of Maharashtra are supporting this Mahavikas Aghadi.
‘We will fight with all our might’
When asked he named his rally as Swabhiman Rally. What self-esteem are you talking about? Responding to this he said that this is not a pitch, it is the truth. The way Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena party of this state was vandalized and people were threatened. Ice, as I always call it, doesn’t mean ice. ICE stands for Income Tax, CBI, ED, which scared people. All these bad things are done by an invisible power of Delhi, the investments come to Maharashtra but go to other states and the injustice that the Delhi government has been doing in Maharashtra. This is a fight for Maharashtra’s self-respect against him and we will fight with all our might and win.
He said that the biggest thing is that because of the Central Government, investment and unemployment have increased. The Central Government donated to other states all the major investments, investments worth millions of rupees and thousands of rupees in jobs that the children of Maharashtra were going to get on merit. What was the fault of Maharashtra in this? The central government always shifts development programs from Maharashtra to other states.
Supriya’s sarcasm on Ladli Brahmin’s plan
Inquiring about Ladli Brahmin Yojana, he said that the sister of this state was not wanted in the Lok Sabha elections. After the Lok Sabha results came, this state has become a dear sister and no one can know it more than me. Supriya Sule, reacting on the family fight in Baramati, said that I had also said this in the Lok Sabha. This fight was not familiar in Lok Sabha nor is it familiar today. Our fight is a fight of ideas, even then we fought against the wrong decisions of the Bharatiya Janata Party and we continue to fight even today.
Today women are not safe and unemployment and inflation are increasing. Do you see what is happening in Maharashtra? Today nothing happens in this state for the safety of women. Rapes are increasing. Anyone can have an accident with a car worth 5-10 million rupees and belongs to a big family. For this they feed him biryani at the police station. We are seeing that when we go to the police station, women are beaten and all those things, someone should speak out against this and what our government is like. That’s a commitment. Whatever the Delhi government says, the Maharashtra government acts the same way. The tickets for the three matches have also been fixed only for Delhi. This is very sad and goes against the self-respect of Maharashtra.
What did Supriya say about SP’s retirement?
Talking about Sharad Pawar’s retirement from politics, he said it is not about typing. When Pawar Saheb himself moved to Delhi 30 years ago and became an MP. After that, Ajit Pawar ji was released. He launched Dilip Palsi Patil, he launched RR Patil ji. Pawar Saheb always put the new generation in the foreground, I remember when Ajit Pawar was 30 or 35 years old and he became a cabinet minister of Maharashtra; there are many such examples from Jain Patil, RR Patil. It has always encouraged new talents, so I think it is a very good idea for the new generation to also enter the party and assume new responsibilities. There is a very good combination between the experience of those who have worked for many years and the enthusiasm of the new generation. The party will continue to grow in the future, good work will be done and development will also occur.
Maharashtra voters are smart
I don’t think there will be a realignment. Maharashtra voters are very mature. If you vote very carefully, I believe that only Maharashtra will be given a strong and self-respecting government. If the world is built on hope, then we must have hope and there will be struggles. This is a question of morality and the wrong way Uddhav Thackeray and Pawar Saheb were robbed of their party and its symbol. Today we have been attacked, tomorrow we will be attacked by someone else. So I believe that this fight is not just ours. This country is governed by the Constitution, not by the arbitrariness of some invisible power.
