maharashtra: Maharashtra parties banking on religion to woo voters

Faith seems to be taking the centre stage within the run-up to the forthcoming balloting for Maharashtra civic our bodies, with occasions linked to religion that includes within the outreach programmes of political events throughout the ideology spectrum. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Chief Raj Thackeray goes to Pune and can take part in a public studying of Hanuman Chalisa on the event of Hanuman Jayanti on Saturday.

The MNS chief will probably be taking part in a ‘Maha aarti’ and a studying of the Hanuman Chalisa. He lately attacked the state authorities with minority appeasement, threatening to play the Hanuman Chalisa subsequent to Islamic locations of worship. Contemplating that the MNS and the BJP have painted an image the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is an anti-Hindu mix, its constituent NCP has additionally deliberate a Hanuman Chalisa occasion in Pune that might see Irrigation Minister Jayant Patil and different NCP leaders in attendance.

The NCP has additionally deliberate an Iftar get together for Muslims to coincide with the Maha Aarti. The overt flip to faith is inflicting concern with the state’s industrialists and businessmen. They need options to extra prosaic issues, equivalent to energy cuts and tax aid. “We face load shedding within the state as a result of scarcity of energy; a number of MSME and industrial items which can be on the agricultural feeder items are dealing with energy cuts,” mentioned an industrialist from Pune on situation of anonymity.

“The facility provide is erratic and to safeguard the equipment, the manufacturing is stopped. As a substitute of resolving these points, all of the events are speaking about points which can be irrelevant.”