'Maharashtra is no one's personal property': Priya Dutt

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 21:57

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Begusarai: In an oblique reference to the MNS, AICC general secretary and MP Priya Dutt today said Maharashtra was "no one's personal property" and people from any state had the constitutional right "to stay, work and live there".

At a meeting after launching the Youth Congress membership drive for Begusarai and Khagari Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar, Dutt, said "Maharashtra is no one's personal property and people have the constitutional right to stay."

Dutt, however, did not name the Maharashtra Navanirman Sena or its supremo Raj Thackeray whose oft repeated "anti-Bihari" remarks are well known.

Brushing aside Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's allegation that whenever the Congress came to power, prices of essential commodities escalated, she linked the price rise to subsidy granted to farmers saying "enhanced subsidy to farmers has been responsible for the price rise."

Referring to the drive launched at the initiative of Rahul Gandhi, Dutt said the AICC general secretary wanted "democracy in the party by enrolling youths for further strengthening the organisation."

PTI

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First Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 21:57

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Ashok - London
Thank you - someone at last is stranding up and making a straight forward clear point. Maharashtra is not anyone personal property that they can use their power to dicate on what they can do and what they can`t. Not allowing the ausis to play in the state is really going to stop the attacks there. If that was the case than, Indians all over the world are attacked and discrimated will The Svia Sena stop the state from any form of sports to be played here or even stop trading with them. Make Maharashtra a personal state of Mr Tackeray and let him isolate it from the world and see how long that can last. If only this shoulld be tired as an experiment Mr Thackeray and the rest of his gang would learn what rubbish they talk.
And also let us look into the non maharshtrons who are dicrimated in Maharashtra itself. Let those states/countries do the same.