Do They Really Represent Us?

They have again vowed to drown down the proposed project of Nanar Refinery. Long back, two decades ago an influential BJP leader had pledged that they would drown the Enron power plant in Arabic Sea and would drag fetch Dowd Ibrahim, the mastermind behind Mumbai bomb blast. Nothing happened. They provoked people against proposed Jaitapur nuclear project, a lot of hue and cry was spread, activists that had never been connected to Konkan before, agitated, an innocent was victimized to Police firing. The project wasn’t called back, the work is going on.

Do they really represent people as they claim?

Do the people really want to drive the projects out of Konkan?

In case of Enron, the opponents had organized a lecture of certain Mahajan to enlighten the citizens about the high cost of the electricity to be produced by the American company, soon after that they had a meeting with Ribeca Mark, Enron Chief and they themselves were enlightened and influenced by the usefulness and reasonableness of the same plant.

Meanwhile Enron faced some trials in their own land of the U.S. and wound up to handover to others. The result was that the power plant at Dabhol/ Anjanwel remained under authority of several bodies, was time and again reformed and reorganized, but did never prove to be efficient and never produced sufficient power. Despite wastage of capacity, theft of water and a huge unpaid tax amount to the Gram Panchayat of Anjanwel nothing came out.

They also had protested before the energy plant being erected by Finolex, near Ratnagiri. A very honest and loyal party worker went on fast and suffered; the leaders thundered and received applause. The factory is working well. The people who always carried on protest drag substantial monetary aids for their sports events and so on…!

At the same time a very influential local leader concentrated on the energy plant of JSW at Jaigad and strategically spread agitation among surrounding dwellers for his own political benefit. The project itself did much to offer services to local people and utilized the CSR as good as possible.  

Now the project of Nanar Refinery. After declaration of the project estate agents rushed to that area. It is a fact that before a few months all lodgings at Vijaydurg were houseful and people discussed that a certain capitalist had purchased a huge land to erect a private port. It is the other side of the fact that some outsiders have already purchased land in Nanar area.

After all, for whose interest all this is happening? The leaders who never spoke clearly on this issue are set to hurriedly visit the area after it was declared that a Saudi company is going to invest. Is it for public interest or benefit of somebody else?

The leaders of Konkan might be very keen about the possible harm to regional environment. But they are so busy with the task of resistance to proposed projects that they must not have found time and space to think about the heavy pollution and hazards that have already present in the State industrial area around Chiplun. Occurrences of ruthless draining hazardous chemicals into agricultural land have taken place there. Several plants have caught fire that tolled lives. The river and streams near Gane Khadpoli MIDC area are worst polluted. It is for the people’s astonishment that not a single figure has been pointed to this deadly fact by any leader in the district.

If they don’t get time in their busy schedule as mentioned above we hope they will  look after;

And if they are ignoring the facts we should better say they are not representing us and should give up running after them!