The BJP and NDA have got a huge majority and a lot of questions are being thrown up whether the opposition was good enough, were they united, were they ready for a fight, did they put up a good fight? All these will keep coming up and fair enough people have a right to question.
Speaking of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), we have won four seats of which two are first time Lok Sabha winners, Sunil Tatkare who was ex-legislator and the other one is a new entrant in our party, Amol Kolhe. Now, looking forward is going to be a task in terms of getting the votes of the people.
Somewhere we begin to realise, we were not able to put across the message to the people of our country, specially in Maharashtra. Our leaders went to the villages, spoke to the farmers, spoke to the people, understood what their problems were, raised the issues in Vidhan Sabha and made sure the BJP-Shiv Sena took cognisance of it.
It is a fact that there is an agrarian crisis in Maharashtra and farmers are suffering the most. The farmers’ suicides and if you go by the records in the last two years, there have been more farmer suicides than ever before in Maharashtra. The government came out with a scheme announcing loan waiver of Rs 35,000 crore. The process after this announcement was just tedious and difficult.