Have votaries of Marathwada as a state underestimated the feeling ordinary people have for Maharashtra? Nobody wants Marathwada to break away from Maharashtra except a clutch of intellectuals, politicians and, of course, the forces behind the demand for a separate Vidarbha Look at Latur - Sec 144 has to be imposed so that people can quench their thirst! That's the city that gave the State two chief ministers, and one of them ruled for eight years." You hear this a lot these days in Aurangabad. It's an argument that could work for a separate Marathwada state - "Look, even powerful leaders could get nothing for their own constituencies, because of the domination of leaders from western...
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