There is very little hope that Maharashtra may get the share it used to get as per the recommendations of the 10th Finance Commission. The creation of three new states has already exacerbated power politics and aggravated groupism. The dexterity with which the NDA government managed to get the three bills passed speaks about the government's determination to get the bills through in this session itself. More Create a separate ministry to tackle growing terrorism by V K Madhok To defeat terrorism India needs the support of the entire citizenry, which it cannot have without good governance and administration. M V Kamath IT is clear that there is a sick, vindictive man as Home Minister in the Congress NCP government in Maharashtra.
Nobody has any doubt about it.
The decision to prosecute the Shiv Sena leader for a speech or for vituperative writings in his paper Samna made eight years ago is meant not for upholding the law, but for wreaking vengeance against a former boss of the Home Minister. More Trifling with a soft State Pakistan calls it 'jehad'. The rest of the world is justified in calling it savagery. In their lexicon the murder of innocent men in their sleep is sanctioned in the name of jehad which in turn, we have it on the authority of Pakistani dictator General Musharraf, is sanctioned by Islam. Even law ministers are not above them, prosperous criminal lawyers not excluding.