• About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
Monday, April 19, 2021
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

    Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

    Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal

    2-0=2. After extensively campaigning in Kerala and other states where Congress might have a chance, an inconsequential Rahul Gandhi cancels WB rallies due to COVID-19

    Indian Railways, Piyush Goyal, COVID-19

    As it did during the first wave, Indian Railways is helping states fight the second wave of Corona

    China, Tibet, Special Frontier Force, India-China Tension,

    A conscript can never fight like a free man – Chinese PLA’s Tibetan unit cannot match up to India’s SFF

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    IT sector, IT Companies, TCS, India

    IT companies didn’t just make a killing profit during the lockdown but hired more employees too

    Term Plans

    Securing Family’s Future? Why You Should Invest in Online Term Plans This Year

    Coronavirus, lockdown, income tax collection

    Despite COVID and lockdown, India’s net tax collection increased. Taxpayers got richer during lockdown

    arhtiyas Piyush Goyal

    “I am gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”: How Piyush Goyal rid Punjab of the Arhtiyas menace

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    Indian Army, warfare, Training, Chinese

    IAF, Army and Navy will now jointly train for nuclear-biological-chemical warfare

    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    Imran Khan, Pakistan, TLP

    Imran Khan had nurtured and formed the TLP but it is turning into a noose around his neck

    Sadiq Khan, IPL, London

    ‘Make me win na, I will bring IPL to London,’ Sadiq, the Pakistan origin Mayor of London is promising an Indian sporting event to Londoners

    bangladesh hindus

    There will not be any Hindus left in Bangladesh in the next 25 years, top think-tank concludes

    pakistan india

    How taking on India is leading Pakistan to a slow and sugarless death

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    Indian TV Series, Sequel

    Sequels and second seasons don’t work in India. What happens to the Indian directors after first movie and first season of TV series?

    contact lenses

    5 Reasons Why Your Eyes Get Watery While Wearing Contact Lenses

    Employees

    Biometric Attendance System Can Push Employees towards Productivity

    coronavirus

    Wondering If You Need Masks in 2021? Read This

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
  • Politics
    • All
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
    Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

    Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

    Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal

    2-0=2. After extensively campaigning in Kerala and other states where Congress might have a chance, an inconsequential Rahul Gandhi cancels WB rallies due to COVID-19

    Indian Railways, Piyush Goyal, COVID-19

    As it did during the first wave, Indian Railways is helping states fight the second wave of Corona

    China, Tibet, Special Frontier Force, India-China Tension,

    A conscript can never fight like a free man – Chinese PLA’s Tibetan unit cannot match up to India’s SFF

    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • All
    • Business
    • Economy1
    • Finance
    IT sector, IT Companies, TCS, India

    IT companies didn’t just make a killing profit during the lockdown but hired more employees too

    Term Plans

    Securing Family’s Future? Why You Should Invest in Online Term Plans This Year

    Coronavirus, lockdown, income tax collection

    Despite COVID and lockdown, India’s net tax collection increased. Taxpayers got richer during lockdown

    arhtiyas Piyush Goyal

    “I am gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”: How Piyush Goyal rid Punjab of the Arhtiyas menace

    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • All
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
    Indian Army, warfare, Training, Chinese

    IAF, Army and Navy will now jointly train for nuclear-biological-chemical warfare

    india indian army ladakh drones

    Amid standoff with China, India puts the Ladakh region under drone surveillance. More Made-In-India drones to follow

    drdo

    For 6 decades DRDO was not up to the mark. Today it is making one missile after another. What really changed

    ghatak drone

    GHATAK- How India’s stealth combat drone programme promises to make it a military superpower

    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • All
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
    Imran Khan, Pakistan, TLP

    Imran Khan had nurtured and formed the TLP but it is turning into a noose around his neck

    Sadiq Khan, IPL, London

    ‘Make me win na, I will bring IPL to London,’ Sadiq, the Pakistan origin Mayor of London is promising an Indian sporting event to Londoners

    bangladesh hindus

    There will not be any Hindus left in Bangladesh in the next 25 years, top think-tank concludes

    pakistan india

    How taking on India is leading Pakistan to a slow and sugarless death

    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • All
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
    sister nivedita

    Sister Nivedita – The friend of all

    Tanishq

    A stupid Ad and a dumb explanation: What Tanishq lost in last 48 hours?

    Coco island, islands, Nehru

    Nehru’s massive strategic blunder – How Nehru gave Coco Islands to Burma that China later grabbed

    Turkey, Hagia Sophia

    Hagia Sophia is not the only one: Turkey has a shameful history of desecration

    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • All
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Satire
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    Indian TV Series, Sequel

    Sequels and second seasons don’t work in India. What happens to the Indian directors after first movie and first season of TV series?

    contact lenses

    5 Reasons Why Your Eyes Get Watery While Wearing Contact Lenses

    Employees

    Biometric Attendance System Can Push Employees towards Productivity

    coronavirus

    Wondering If You Need Masks in 2021? Read This

    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
No Result
View All Result
TFIPOST
No Result
View All Result
  Newswire
Winning starts for Manika, Sutirtha at Oly qualification tourney 1 month ago
Top Jaish man Sajjad Afghani killed in Kashmir (2nd Ld) 1 month ago
Akhilesh vs Yogi in hoarding war 1 month ago
Court grants bail to 7 accused in JNU sedition case 1 month ago
India’s WPI inflation rises to 4.17% in Feb 1 month ago
AstraZeneca: No evidence of high blood clot risk from vaccine 1 month ago
Next
Prev

Extort money from Mumbai to keep bastions happy, how NCP systematically loots Mumbai

Mahima Kalra
by Mahima Kalra
7 April 2021
in Opinions
0
Mumbai, Sharad Pawar, Anil Deshmukh, NCP

(PC: Yahoo News)

0
SHARES
1.9k
VIEWS
Sharre via FacebookShare via Twitter

Almost two weeks ago, former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh’s plan to extort 100 crore rupees per month from the bars, restaurants and other establishments of Mumbai was exposed by former Mumbai Police Commissioner, Param Bir Singh. This led to a huge uproar and ultimately ended with the resignation of Deshmukh but one question that remains unanswered is why Mumbai was especially targeted by the NCP Home Minister.

One can argue that Mumbai is the richest city in the country and there might have been a directive to extort money from other cities which have not been revealed yet. These arguments might be totally or partially true. But, the NCP came out of the whole episode unscathed and it did not even bother to take the matter seriously, and that is primarily because the city of Mumbai does not have NCP’s voter base.

Out of the four parties in Maharashtra, NCP has the lowest stake in Mumbai. The party won only 9 seats in the city out of 114 in the last BMC election. Therefore, if the image of NCP in the city, as many suggest, is of a corrupt party. But it does not bother the top leadership of the party at all.

For decades, the NCP has used Mumbai as a milking cow because it does not have anything to lose in the city. The kind of extortion business NCP Home Minister Anil Deshmukh was running in Mumbai would never be run in Pune or Amravati because Western Maharashtra and Marathwada are the bastions of the Sharad Pawar led party.

The financial capital of India accounts for almost 6 per cent of the country’s GDP, 30 per cent of Income-tax collections, 20 per cent of excise collections, 60 per cent of customs duties, and 4,00,000 crore rupees of corporate tax collections. In FY19, the total tax collection from Mumbai was 3.52 lakh crore rupees while the collection from Delhi was 1.60 lakh crore rupees, less than half of Mumbai. If Mumbai is lost, Maharashtra will be like a toothless tiger.

But despite such heavy contribution of Mumbai to Maharashtra’s public income, the city gets very little (read nothing) in return. Today, cities like Pune, Amravati, and Nashik have better infrastructure than Mumbai. The city got its first metro line in 2014, almost a decade and a half after Delhi.

Ajit Pawar, the Finance Minister of Maharashtra, calls the Mumbai-Ahemdabad Bullet train an unnecessary and costly project because it does not bother his political constituency. For decades, the Congress and NCP politicians from other regions of Maharashtra spent all the public money to their respective constituencies for irrigation projects, infrastructure projects, microlending (all this all contributes to their own pockets), and building out bankrupt sugar mills and cooperative banks with the Mumbai taxpayers’ money.

The city of Mumbai got step-motherly treatment from NCP and Congress because it is politically not important to these parties. In the five years of the BJP-Shiv Sena government, Mumbai was awarded many big-time infrastructure and investment projects but many of them were put to a halt after the tri-party alliance came to power and the duo of Congress-NCP allegedly started the same game that they were playing for decades. Shiv Sena is all set to lose political capital for the CM chair to Uddhav Thackeray. However, the ultimate loser in all this is the city of Mumbai as Mumbaikars have been kept at the margins just because they are politically not relevant to parties like the NCP.

Tags: Anil DeshmukhMaharashtraNCPSharad PawarShiv Sena
ShareTweetSend
Previous Post

India’s economy is paying a very heavy price for the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress govt of Maharashtra

Next Post

Despite Pawar’s objections, Deshmukh asked for Rs 2 crore for reinstating Sachin Vaze. Was Thackeray involved?

Mahima Kalra

Mahima Kalra

Wine, Books, Movies - In that order

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms of use and Privacy Policy.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

  • Most Read
  • Latest
Xi Jinping, coronavirus, Shinzo Abe, china, Japan, coornavirus, COVID-19, Wuhan Virus

‘Pack up and get out of there,’ Japan to spend $2.2 billion to get Japanese companies to exit China

9 April 2020
ajay devgn karan johar

The man who bullied the Bully – How Ajay Devgn made Karan Johar’s monopoly a joke and forced him to apologize

22 June 2020
Huawei, China, Trump, USA, Xi Jinping

‘Our survival is at stake now,’ Chinese Telecom giant Huawei crumbles after US ban on Semiconductor exports

19 May 2020
T-Series Sonu Nigam Divya Khosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar

T-Series forced to take down Atif Aslam’s video, Divya Khosla trolled. T-Series has a bad day in office

25 June 2020
Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

Transport sector is losing Rs. 315 Cr every day due to Covid-imposed restrictions across states like Maharashtra

19 April 2021
Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal

2-0=2. After extensively campaigning in Kerala and other states where Congress might have a chance, an inconsequential Rahul Gandhi cancels WB rallies due to COVID-19

19 April 2021
Indian Railways, Piyush Goyal, COVID-19

As it did during the first wave, Indian Railways is helping states fight the second wave of Corona

19 April 2021
China, Tibet, Special Frontier Force, India-China Tension,

A conscript can never fight like a free man – Chinese PLA’s Tibetan unit cannot match up to India’s SFF

18 April 2021

Popular This Week

Chhabra riots, national media
Trending

Large scale anti-Hindu riots in Chhabra, Rajasthan. National Media ignores it just like the Bhainsa riot

by TFIPOST News Desk
13 April 2021
Karan Johar, Kartik Aarya, Bollywood
Trending

Karan Johar targets another ‘outsider’ Kartik Aaryan, netizens call for Boycott of Bollywood

by Abhinav Singh
17 April 2021
Yati Narsinghanand, Kamlesh Tiwari
Opinions

Hindus are now doing for Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati what they should have done for Kamlesh Tiwari

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
14 April 2021
Arnab Goswami, Mumbai Police, Sachin Vaze
Trending

As the cops who sent him to jail are in jail so Mumbai Police closes Arnab Goswami case

by Sanbeer Singh Ranhotra
12 April 2021
Kashmir, J&K Police, mehbooba mufti, Islamic Terrorism, Islamist terrorists
Trending

Modi govt’s stern message to terrorist sympathisers – woman cop arrested for obstructing anti-terror operation

by Abhinav Singh
17 April 2021

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited

  • Terms of use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
    • Analysis
    • Opinions
    • Trending
  • Economy
    • Business
    • Finance
  • Defense
    • Defence
    • Strategy
    • Weaponry
  • Geopolitics
    • Africa
    • Americas
    • Asia Pacific
    • Europe
    • South Asia
    • West Asia
  • Knowledge
    • Culture
    • History
    • Indology
  • Lounge
    • Books
    • Cinema
    • Food
    • Health
    • Sports
    • technology
    • Travel
    • Satire
  • Newswire
TFI Official Merchandise
हिन्दी
  • About us
  • Columnists
  • Careers
  • Brand Partnerships
  • rightlog is now TFIPOST

©2021 TFI Media Private Limited