Maharashtra Congress President Harshwardhan Sapkal on Thursday targeted Mahayuti government, alleging that the state’s law and order situation has collapsed and claiming that Maharashtra is being turned into “another Bihar.”
In a post on X, Sapkal cited a series of recent incidents, including the murder of a young Marathi man on a Mumbai local train, the rising number of crimes against women, murders, robberies, gang wars, drug rackets, hit-and-run cases, and organised crime. He also referred to the recent toxic liquor tragedy in Pune that claimed innocent lives and an incident in which a living woman was allegedly declared dead, following which her father and brother were arrested and assaulted.
“The government has remained completely silent despite these shocking incidents,” Sapkal alleged.
He claimed that the law and order situation had deteriorated across the state, from Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to rural Maharashtra. According to him, criminals no longer fear the law, with murders taking place in broad daylight, gangs operating openly, drug mafias expanding their network across the state, and ordinary citizens living under constant fear.
Sapkal said that Maharashtra, once regarded as a progressive state that showed the country the path of development, has now reached a point where citizens are uncertain about their own safety. He termed the situation not merely a breakdown of law and order but a complete failure of the state leadership.
Targeting the ruling alliance, Sapkal alleged that the government’s focus remained on engineering political defections, breaking parties and targeting the opposition rather than tackling rising crime. “The government has neither the will, nor a policy, nor a sense of responsibility to control crime,” he said.
He further alleged that under the leadership of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra’s identity was increasingly becoming that of a state with a deteriorating law and order situation.
Concluding his remarks, Sapkal said that the phrase, “Maharashtra has been turned into Bihar,” was no longer just a political slogan but was becoming a reality.
