The meanest of intelligence will recognise the highly trained negotiators of underground guerilla units who are speaking from behind the Veerappan curtain. The demands are mostly political which will occur only to an underground outfit with an extremist agenda. The other possibility is that the forest brigand has gathered around him a gang of extremist advisers who are analysing for him what is happening in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. This is rather a remote possibility. More State facing severe cut in its share of Central taxes by N P Phadnis Economist Dr P.R.Brahmanand has also expressed reservations against the suggestion made by the 11th Finance Commission.
Political considerations are much heavier than the financial discipline.
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.