OFF THE RECORD review on some of the headlines…
Foreign settlement
Ajay and Sachin individually opened the batting for the Indian cricket team. Both were known to play aggressive cricket; and now the name a-likes who are as aggressive as the cricketing geniuses in Maharashtra politics and liaison, have started scouting locations for settling abroad if the Speaker Rahul Narvekar or BJP high command think otherwise for CM Eknath Shinde. Out of the two, one is planning or already has a green card, and the other loves Dubai. By the way, I feel for CM Eknath Shinde nowadays. He is genuinely working extremely hard to prove BJP that their choice of putting him at the top is correct; but the individuals surrounding him, the media advisors, the agencies, the dalaal’s, the rest of Shivsena’s 39 MLAs and now even their sons have taken control of CM Shinde. At times Eknath Shinde has to take decisions to favour these MLA’s and also has to compulsory sign their files. We all know Eknath Shinde is a large hearted person but everyone is on a rampage to take advantage of his good nature. Only support system he has is in “Prabhakar Kaka” , his man Friday, Dr Khatgaokar, IAS Bhushan Gagrani and finally in Devendra Fadnavis. Yes, after the initial hiccups in relations between Shinde-Fadnavis, Fadnavis did see what CM Shinde is going through and it was then he decided to lend him his unconditional support. I don’t know, but is Anant Madia a cousin of builder Ajay Ashar because people keep on referring to him that and they say after the newspaper advertisement debacle, Madia is still calling most of the shots from his Nirmal building office, oops so sorry, I meant Ajay Ashar’s. Madia has his hands full with IT projects now and there are few big dreams which will be fulfilled it is said. Point is whose dreams? Maharashtra’s, CM Shinde’s or yet again…. Another NEW headache for CM Shinde and DCM Fadnavis is the growing influence of Ajit Pawar on administration and his interference in it.
As written in my blog last time, it is Pawar’s who have bowled a googly to the BJP and not the other way around. In 2024, if the INDI alliance comes into power, in no time Ajit Pawar will take the leap and come in power there and if NDA wins, then the senior Pawar might jump ship. In any case, the winners are the Pawar’s! No harm, it is politics, but I fail to understand when everything was going the right way, why the need of NCP? Team of Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis are very much capable. Remember the last Goa Vidhan Sabha elections? Alone Fadnavis changed the overall political scenario of Goa in a matter of months and got BJP in the power. If the centre was not happy with few individuals working with the CM or even with few CM’s decisions, they should have warned him and CM would have obliged immediately. But by bringing the NCP in the fray of power, there is an uncertainty clouding Maharashtra. A fresh episode of Minister Uday SAmant’s brother involving Kiran Samant and Ajit Pawar came to light. Kiran even changed his WhatsApp DP (display picture) of his previous party symbol of UBT and it became the talk of the town immediately; on investigating it was found both Samant brothers are unhappy with the functioning and control of Ajit Pawar everywhere.
I will repeat one of my tweets here which I had written when Ganpati Bappa was here, “If wrong people with bad intentions or wrong people with corrupt mindset enter your homes even as “guests”, be rest assured your downtime has come. One ‘immature’ family member’s stupid ambitions to be the talk of town, can destroy the heroics of the actual “achiever” of your family. Be careful while choosing your guests and friends. It looks rosy at the beginning but the end is dangerous.” A not so liked IAS officer was doing aarti’s at Varsha who later got suspended too.
Marathi Issue.
A lady posted a video a few days back saying that she was denied to buy a premise, just because she was a ‘Maharashtrian’. A lot of political activists from ‘Marathi’ parties showed their displeasure and a lesson was taught to the individual by these activists. Again, isn’t it funny that those who are claiming to be so-called defenders of ‘Marathi Manus’ are only partners to the builders who are throwing Marathi Manus out of Mumbai for reasons known to all? Now except Mhada buildings, SRA buildings or Chawls, a very small % of Marathi manus live in buildings from Churchgate to Andheri OR CST to Mulund. So I request these political parties to keep the Marathi Asmita card in your pocket and help your builder partners in getting CC and OC. Here for years, our Marathi politicians, be it any government, are controlled and guided by non-Marathi people (read -Dalaal’s) what are we complaining about?
Vikrant Hemant Joshi.
