Now, Shivraj says Biharis not welcome in Madhya Pradesh

Last Updated: Saturday, November 07, 2009, 10:23

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Now, Shivraj says Biharis not welcome in Madhya Pradesh

Zeenews Bureau Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minsiter Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Friday did a Raj Thackeray when he said workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were not welcome in his state.

“Locals should be given preference in employment in the indsutries being set up in the state. It should not happen that people should come from outside...Bihar and get the jobs here,” he said

Speaking at a public function in Satna – bordering UP – Chauhan said that local youth should be trained and given preference in giving jobs. He said not only government, but even private companied should prefer the people of MP over Biharis.

However, when the episode threatened to become a political storm, Chouhan retracted from his statement. In an official release from Indore, Chouhan said people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab or any other region of India should come to Madhya Pradesh and will always be welcomed.

Chauhan seemed to have taken after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray who fought the recently concluded state and Lok Sabha polls on the plank of ‘Marathi Manoos’; demanding ouster of Bihari and UP migrants in favour of locals.

Reacting to his comments RJD chief and former Bihar CM Lalu Yadav said Chauhan had lost his mental balance. “Not only that, what he has said is unconstitutional,” he added, saying Indians could work in any state of the country.

Chauhan’s party, the BJP, sought to play down its CM’s remarks by saying every state has its own priorities. “Chauhan should not be compared to Raj…every state has to look after its own interests,” BJP spokesperson Prakash Javdekar told Zee News.

UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi condemned Chauhan’s remark. “This is very shameful and unfortunate. JD-U’s Shivanand Tiwari also said it was an irresponsible statement from the CM of Madhya Pradesh.

Chouhan must resign: Paswan

LJP President Ramvilas Paswan has demanded immediate resignation of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivaraj Singh Chouhan for his statement that jobs in the state should not be allowed to be taken away by Biharis and locals should be given preference.

"The statement made by Chouhan is unfortunate... a person holding a top constitutional post should not not react in this manner... he should resign immediately," Paswan told reporters here.

Chouhan while addressing a function at Satna in Madhya Pradesh this afternoon said "Locals should be given preference in employment in the industries being set up in the state. It should not happen that people should come from outside...Bihar and get the jobs here."

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First Published: Saturday, November 07, 2009, 10:23

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Yogesh Gupta - Indore
this is shameful. I used to hate nav-nirmand sena and their supporters. Now CM in my own state is spreading hatred. Why can`t these politicians think of India as a whole. Everyone`s worried about their own territory. First of all there are no jobs in MP, he should really explain how Biharies and UP guys will take them away?

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Bharatisuta - bangalore
Sanghparivar`s main agenda is to DIVIDE SECULAR INDIA on the basis of Religion, Region, Caste & colour. They are the enemies of humanity. They never fought for the Independence of India, never respect the secular constitution of India. They never wanted an united india, they want Aryan spremacy MANU states.

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rishi - chennai
one major reason why local dont like outsider in their land is they dont want outsiders to mingle with the local girls and bring outside culture to their land.I feel steps should be taken to bring different cultures and religions together.but the thing is the fundamentalist are the greatest problems for this .islamic fundamentalists,church mindsets especially in south and n-e india are more responsible for people not coming together

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sanjay - australia
WHILE IN GERMANY I HAD FEW PAKISTANI FRIENDS WHO JOKED THAT ONE DAY THEY WILL BREAK INDIA IN 29 COUNTRIES ACORDING TO THE STATES AND THEN RULE OVER US.TODAY LOOKS LIKE OUR CAPABLE POLITICIANS WILL DO THAT ONE DAY.

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Pravin Mhapankar - Mumbai
Our country formed under lingustic majority grounds, means every major language group having their own state. Naturally CM of respected state bound by to look after his state people. Now why migraton took place? reaseon is non-availablility of jobs or opportunities created by political leaders of states from which people migrate.

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Ojas - Ahmedabad
Off course every In dian has right to legal work anywhere in India. But it is high time that the leaders of Bihar and U.P do some interospection and try to find out why everywhere theses people are facing opposition from localites? Without any fire there can not be any smok. So please create opportunities for locals in Bihar & U.P. Give the best of education and training creat an armosphere in your states for big industries to get attracted to set up projects in your states. Just by giving political statements you are doing injusticeto the people of Bihar & U.P. Why other state people are not facing opposition in India? Think on this point Castism is most prominent in U.P. Bihar West Bengal & Orissa and majority of migrants in other states of INdia are from these states Why? Wake up call for Laloos and Mayas and other Yadavs to do some interospection. God save these people

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Kanwal jit Singh Gill - Surrey, Canada
How the central govt. and politicians are reacting and taking action against such statements prooves one thing for sure. Whenever Punjab politicians made such statements for protecting Punjab, right away they were called seperatists and terrorists and strong action taken against them. But now the central govt. don`t have the guts to take action against Shivraj or Raj Thackery. This prooves that rules and justice is not the same for everybody in India.

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satyendra - hyderabad
it`s very onfortunate that our leaders are become very selfish. they can give any statement and they can deny also the same statement. shivraj chauhan must face criminal charges, how dare a chief minister is saying and naming of a particular state.if the same thing will do other country like , usa , uk , canada , australia n etc. then .we will be isoleted from the whole world.

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Ashok Mahbubani - London
ATTENTION THE WORLD

Will all NRIs / Students / Contracted workers aboard etc who are orginally from Madhya Pradesh or are part of the Marathi Manoos return back to their resp. states as their local government do not want to give any jobs etc to people from any other states hence why should any other country/state in the world provide them jobs etc. Go back to your states and let your local government look after you. You will be able to be with your own kind and live in isolation from the world. Lets see how the local government cope with this.

WAKE UP RAJ T AND SHIVJI

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Uma Bajpaee - Katni
These types of leaders or CMs are giving reason of big smile to Chinese thinkers who they are in strategy of splitting India’s provinces to separate countries. Being a CM, have right to improve all corner of his state’s citizen but abusing or refusing citizen of other states (particular by naming) is against the law and national integrity. Interesting is that those who loud hard against refusal of singing Vande Mataram , doing and saying totally against of Vande Mataram.