Congress-NCP will improve tally in Maharashtra: Prithviraj Chavan

Chavan said the Congress-NCP alliance in Maharashtra was co-ordinating very well and complaints with regard to inaction or discontent among party leaders and rank and file were being immediately sorted out. He attacked the BJP for humiliating its electoral ally, the Shiv Sena while luring the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). “Special treatment is given to the MNS, which had fielded candidates in seats contested by the Shiv Sena in 2009. It is up to the Shiv Sena to decide how much insult it can take from the BJP,” he said.

Chavan said he had sought a detailed report on MNS chief Raj Thackeray’s recent controversial call to Vidarbha’s suffering farmers. “I have asked experts to examine Thackeray's statement from a legal standpoint. Thereafter, necessary action, if any, would be taken.”

Addressing a poll rally in Vidarbha’s Yavatmal, where a large number of farmer suicides had taken place, Raj had appealed to farmers to refrain from committing suicide, but added that, “If at all you want to die, first kill those who have done injustice to you.”