The Eknath Shinde-BJP government in Maharashtra has stayed or reversed at least half a dozen decisions taken by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) regime, including relocating the Aarey Metro car shed and the CBI to probe cases. to restore general consent. State.
The latest decision of the state government, which completed 100 days in office earlier this month, was significant in comparison to that of the Central Bureau of Investigation, given that the then Shiv Sena-led MVA government backed the probe agency citing its consent. had taken “Abuse to settle political scores”.
The present government was formed after Eknath Shinde rebelled against Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and staged a walkout with at least 40 of the 55 MLAs, leading to the fall of the MVA government. Shinde took oath as chief minister in June this year as deputy to Bharatiya Janata Party’s Devendra Fadnavis. Notably, after coming to power in November 2019, the then MVA government of Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress rescinded some policy decisions of their previous BJP-Shiv Sena government led by Fadnavis.
The Shinde government decided to roll back four policy decisions taken by the Fadnavis government during 2014-2019, but this was later overturned by the MVA regime. These decisions include restoring the voting rights of farmers in Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) markets, reintroducing pensions for those jailed during the Emergency and electing village heads and city council presidents directly from the people. .
The Maharashtra Agricultural Produce and Marketing (Development and Regulation) Act 1963 only allows members of village panchayats, agricultural credit societies and multi-purpose cooperatives to elect members of the APMC. In August 2017, the then BJP-Shiv Sena government brought an amendment to the law and empowered farmers to choose members and presidents of APMCs in the area where they sell their produce.
In January 2020, the MVA government repealed this provision and went back to the old process, in which members of gram panchayats, multi-purpose cooperative societies and agricultural credit societies elected the APMC board, claiming that the APMC had no operations. There is not enough money for The Shinde government decided to restore voting rights to farmers who own 0.25 acres (1,000 sq m) of land and have sold their produce in the APMC market at least three times in the past five years. where he wants to become a voter. The electoral turnaround was seen as an attempt by the government to break the NCP and Congress strongholds in the cooperative sector and local bodies.
During the Emergency, the pension of the jailed workers was also restored by the Shinde government. Those jailed for more than a month during the Emergency will get a pension of Rs 10,000 from August 1. If the jail term was less than one month, the figure would be Rs 5,000 and Rs 2,500 respectively. The decision was first implemented by the Fadnavis government in 2017, but was reversed in 2020 by the MVA government, which claimed that most of the beneficiaries were affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
The new government also overturned the MVA’s decision to annul the direct election of sarpanch and city council president. It also decided to allow direct election of sarpanch (village head) to local self-government bodies (gram panchayats). The state government has decided to add a provision that the gram panchayat will not be able to move a no-confidence motion against the sarpanch or the deputy sarpanch in the first two years after the election and six months before the next election.
Similarly, the present government also decided to elect the city council presidents directly from the people by bringing an amendment in the Maharashtra Municipal Council, Nagar Panchayat and Industrial Towns Act, 1965. The previous Fadnavis government amended it in 2017 to make way for it. Direct election of sarpanches This was traditionally done to gain entry into village panchayats controlled by the Congress and the NCP, although elections are rarely fought on party symbols.
In January 2020, the then MVA government decided to reverse the decision, claiming that differences between the ideologies of sarpanches and members of village panchayats were hindering development work. The Shinde government, in its first cabinet meeting after taking over, had banned the shifting of the Metro car shed from Green Lung Aarey Colony to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai.
Incidentally, shifting the Metro car shed from Aarey to Kanjurmarg was the first decision taken by the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA dispensation in 2019. In March 2021, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) told the High Court that the Kanjurmarg plot was better. Aarey is suitable as compared to survey number 275 of Kanjur village, 102 acres of land was required for construction of car shed for Metro Line 3,4 and 6 and an interchange station for proposed Line 14.
The current government has also canceled development projects worth Rs 850 crore from the rural development department and fund allocation from district planning committees, which were decided by the previous MVA government, arguing that the allocation of funds and projects was unequal because Only NCP MLAs were supported.
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