ViDarbha will be a Poll issUe

A separate Vidarbha is likely to be a major issue in the Lok Sabha elections of 2019. The BJP has already drawn out the map of a separate Vidarbha. After which, Congress’ Vidarbha leaders have raised the demand for a Vidarbha Congress Committee, similar to the Mumbai Regional Congress Committee. Recently, when Sonia Gandhi was in Nanded to unveil the statue of S.B. Chavan, the late father of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief, Ashok Chavan, she directed him to hold a meeting on the issue of Vidarbha. Chavan met the Vidarbha leaders on 15 July in Nagpur, where a one-line resolution was passed demanding the formation of a separate Vidarbha Congress Committee. Led by Vilas Muttemvyar, the Vidarbha leaders will be in New Delhi this week to meet Sonia Gandhi and put forth their demand to her.