Nagpur: NCP leader Jwala Dhote had planned to take out a rally of female sex worker (FSWs) and transgenders protesting police action in Ganga-Jamuna red light area at Vidhan Bhawan.
Another organization – Sangharsh Vahini – also had plans for a rally for the interests of the nomadic tribes. Dhote has shelved his plans winter session Will be in Mumbai. Sangharsh Bahini is still planning to hold a symbolic protest on 22 December.
The decision to hold the winter session in Mumbai instead of Nagpur is expected to impress many fringe groups and those wishing to meet their demands. Every year such groups saw the assembly session here as an opportunity to be heard.
In 1994, a massive procession by the Gowari community demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status ended with the death of 114. Later in 2015, Dr Vikas Mahatme, now a Rajya Sabha MP from BJP, led a rally of Dhangars (shepherd community). ) Blocking the same demand roads. Both the demands have not yet been met. Later CAA and NRC were opposed.
If rallies or morchas, as they are called locally, have been a permanent feature of the Nagpur session. Hyderabad House – which houses the Secretariat, is visited by many. Some people pitch their tents on the side of the Vidhan Bhavan hoping to attract attention. coming from remote parts of VidarbhaPeople come with small things in the hope of meeting a minister or bureaucrat in some department. These include demands for construction of roads in villages, transfers, salary hikes, pension payments, even non-cognizance of police complaints. Some cases are years old.
“People living in remote parts of the region find Mumbai very far away. The winter session in Nagpur gives them a chance to listen. They line up to meet leaders or officials. Certainly the leadership in western Maharashtra remains apathetic,” Dhote said. Mumbai doesn’t get that crowded, though the assembly works there for the rest of the year.
“We usually get delegations on issues like cooperatives or defaults. The complainants believe that taking up the matter during the winter session will help in speedy resolution.
“People come with different issues of diverse nature. There are requests for regularization of employment, matters related to labor laws, regularization of plots or land to even proper rehabilitation. Vinay Sare, a Congress worker.
Officials and political activists acknowledge that not much will happen even though people expect them to. Hardly anyone takes cognizance of such complaints.
“In 2013, we took out a rally against the lack of scholarships for students from OBC and nomadic tribes. Within a week, the amount was restored,” said Mukund Adawar of Sangharsh Vahini.
“The issues are mainly related to the revenue and police departments. For example, a group of farmers came to Nagpur because they did not get subsidy for drip irrigation,” said Sahebrao Pawar, an activist from Yavatmal.
Kishor Tiwari, president of Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swavalamban Mission, a think tank of the state government, said, “Middlemen mostly create situations as genuine issues are hardly dealt with and the winter session leads to wastage of resources.”
Another organization – Sangharsh Vahini – also had plans for a rally for the interests of the nomadic tribes. Dhote has shelved his plans winter session Will be in Mumbai. Sangharsh Bahini is still planning to hold a symbolic protest on 22 December.
The decision to hold the winter session in Mumbai instead of Nagpur is expected to impress many fringe groups and those wishing to meet their demands. Every year such groups saw the assembly session here as an opportunity to be heard.
In 1994, a massive procession by the Gowari community demanding Scheduled Tribe (ST) status ended with the death of 114. Later in 2015, Dr Vikas Mahatme, now a Rajya Sabha MP from BJP, led a rally of Dhangars (shepherd community). ) Blocking the same demand roads. Both the demands have not yet been met. Later CAA and NRC were opposed.
If rallies or morchas, as they are called locally, have been a permanent feature of the Nagpur session. Hyderabad House – which houses the Secretariat, is visited by many. Some people pitch their tents on the side of the Vidhan Bhavan hoping to attract attention. coming from remote parts of VidarbhaPeople come with small things in the hope of meeting a minister or bureaucrat in some department. These include demands for construction of roads in villages, transfers, salary hikes, pension payments, even non-cognizance of police complaints. Some cases are years old.
“People living in remote parts of the region find Mumbai very far away. The winter session in Nagpur gives them a chance to listen. They line up to meet leaders or officials. Certainly the leadership in western Maharashtra remains apathetic,” Dhote said. Mumbai doesn’t get that crowded, though the assembly works there for the rest of the year.
“We usually get delegations on issues like cooperatives or defaults. The complainants believe that taking up the matter during the winter session will help in speedy resolution.
“People come with different issues of diverse nature. There are requests for regularization of employment, matters related to labor laws, regularization of plots or land to even proper rehabilitation. Vinay Sare, a Congress worker.
Officials and political activists acknowledge that not much will happen even though people expect them to. Hardly anyone takes cognizance of such complaints.
“In 2013, we took out a rally against the lack of scholarships for students from OBC and nomadic tribes. Within a week, the amount was restored,” said Mukund Adawar of Sangharsh Vahini.
“The issues are mainly related to the revenue and police departments. For example, a group of farmers came to Nagpur because they did not get subsidy for drip irrigation,” said Sahebrao Pawar, an activist from Yavatmal.
Kishor Tiwari, president of Vasantrao Naik Shetkari Swavalamban Mission, a think tank of the state government, said, “Middlemen mostly create situations as genuine issues are hardly dealt with and the winter session leads to wastage of resources.”
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