Maharashtra govt ignoring needs of middle class: Congress

The Congress today said that the BJP-led Maharashtra government is busy attending to wealthy people and ignoring the needs of middle class.
"It is now out in the open that the state government issued a notification that builders developing luxury towers in Mumbai have been exempted from paying a premium to the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) if they are building extra areas. This will only benefit high profile builders whose apartments range from Rs 40-100 crore," Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Sachin Sawant told reporters here.
Sawant said that since such flats are not available for sale to common man, the BJP is only playing with the feelings of people, by exempting builders from paying extra charges.

Terming the state government as "seth ji ki sarkar," (government of merchants), Sawant said "it is busy attending to wealthy people and ignoring the needs of those belonging to middle class."
"When such high priced flats cannot be bought by common man, it means that the government is following 'kuch ka saath, kuch ka vikas' (support for few, development for few) agenda. How can you exempt the rich from paying taxes to the government and make others suffer?
"The decisions taken by a government is for the betterment of society and not only for a section of people," he said.

The Congress spokesperson also said that the people of Maharashtra are suffering from the constant altercations between BJP and Shiv Sena and that such disputes are rendering the state directionless.
Sawant also said that cleanliness drive initiated by the state government was first named after Sant Gadge Baba and that removing his name from the campaign is an insult to his ideology.
Former minister late R R Patil had initiated the drive named after Sant Gadge Baba, who was a saintly social reformer from Maharashtra of 19th century and promoted the values of cleanliness and hygiene.