- June 20, 2025
- 7 mins
Maha Vikas Aaghadi and the Politics of Regression
click play to listen to the article
After the 2019 Maharashtra elections, the people of the state have got a government that is nothing short of a political circus. Uddhav Thackeray’s desperation to become the Chief Minister has taken the state hostage.
The Maha Vikas Aaghadi (MVA) is not a government – it is an alliance of political opportunists who are more interested in reversing every good policy or development initiative undertaken by the previous BJP government.
In their very first cabinet meeting, the MVA government decided to stall the Metro car shed at Aarey. This is despite the Supreme Court, the High Court and the NGT giving approvals to the project. Not a single tree is required to be cut any further, and no environmental clearance is pending. The work is completely legal and ready to proceed. And yet, the government chooses to halt the work for no reason except political vindictiveness.
The project is halted merely because it was initiated under the BJP regime. Uddhav Thackeray is more concerned about appearing virtuous to a few elite activists than about reducing the deaths of people who die daily on Mumbai’s local trains. This anti-development attitude doesn’t stop in Mumbai. It has now spread across Maharashtra. Be it the Bullet Train project or the Nanar Refinery, every initiative is being scrapped out of pure hatred for the BJP.
This is not governance. This is pure revenge.
This regressive politics is hurting the future of the state. The Aarey metro depot is not a political playground – it is a critical piece of infrastructure for Mumbai. The depot is essential for the functioning of Metro Line 3, which aims to decongest the lifelines of Mumbai – the local trains. The people of Mumbai are suffering, and this government has no empathy.
It is laughable that Uddhav Thackeray claims to be protecting the environment by halting this project, while simultaneously proposing Kanjurmarg as an alternate site. The Kanjurmarg site will also require tree felling and is already under litigation. It is nowhere close to a viable option, and this delay will only lead to cost overruns and time loss.
Not only that, but the estimated loss due to this delay is nearly ₹5200 crores. Every day of delay bleeds public money. But the MVA doesn’t care. They are not interested in infrastructure, development, or job creation. Their only agenda is to ensure that nothing credited to the BJP survives.
The Bullet Train project, which could have brought high-speed connectivity and modernised transport in the state, is being ridiculed by the MVA leaders. The Nanar refinery project, which could have created thousands of jobs, has been shelved just because it was supported by the previous regime.
The MVA’s politics is not about governance – it is about erasing legacy. Maharashtra cannot afford this kind of ego-driven obstruction.
They are setting dangerous precedents: halting legal and environmentally cleared projects, misleading the public, and turning governance into personal vendetta.
Maharashtra deserves a future – not a full stop.
What kind of government halts infrastructure that is already approved by the courts? What kind of leadership puts political ego above public convenience? The MVA government continues to set new benchmarks in hypocrisy.
They say they are protecting the environment, but the truth is that they are only protecting their own insecurities. The Supreme Court has not objected to the project. There is no further tree cutting required. Still, the depot is stopped.
And it doesn’t stop there. Maharashtra is facing a severe infrastructure crisis because the government is too busy undoing what Devendra Fadnavis built. Metro lines, bullet trains, industrial corridors – all are victims of MVA’s vengeance politics.
This government is paralysed by insecurity. And Maharashtra is paying the price.
The longer this continues, the harder it will be to recover. Maharashtra is not just losing money – it’s losing momentum.
Where MVA drags Maharashtra into darkness, BJP builds highways of light.
The BJP’s developmental track record under Fadnavis is undisputed. Metro lines, coastal roads, expressways, rural electrification, and industrial corridors—real progress, not staged press conferences. BJP doesn’t govern for social media applause. It governs for delivery.
But here’s the difference: while BJP pushes policies to empower people, MVA clings to pettiness. While BJP acts, MVA reacts. While BJP builds the future, MVA rewrites the past out of sheer inferiority.
Maharashtra needs growth, not grudge. It needs vision, not vengeance. It needs BJP.
Congress, Shiv Sena, and NCP run out of ideas. All they have left is blocking BJP. But blocking BJP means blocking Bharat. And Bharat doesn’t forgive regression.
MVA is a cautionary tale. BJP is the corrective path.
Share this article:
Recommended For You
