Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) officially declared its support to the agitation for Vidarbha’s statehood. Civil supplies minister Anil Deshmukh told the media that their party president Sharad Pawar had always maintained that if people of Vidarbha wanted a separate state they should have it. Deshmukh had convened a meeting of NCP leaders from the district on this issue. After seeking their views he and ex-minister Ramesh Bang made the party decision public. The statehood agitation has started with renewed vigour ever since Centre announced that Telangana state would be carved out from Andhra Pradesh. All parties except Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have supported it. Congress, BJP, NCP and Dalit parties have formed the Vidarbha Rajya Sangram Samiti (VRSS) to launch an agitation for Vidarbha on a common platform. They have called a Vidarbha bandh on January 20. Deshmukh also stressed on the fact that all parties had come together on the Vidarbha issue.
Babasaheb Ambedkar had favoured formation of four Marathi speaking states.
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