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Anti-poor

The editorial "Concern for the deprived dries up" (April 21) has rightly demanded the withdrawal of the Maharashtra Water Resources Regulatory Bill which is atrocious. It will hit the rural poor who are already reeling under debt burden and non-remunerative minimum support prices, and resorting to suicides in the State. Already water, a gift of the nature, has become a commercial commodity and this Bill will reinforce its commercialisation.

P.L. Ramana,
Nellore, A.P.

I have always wondered why the poor, the only enthusiastic voters, are short-changed by their representatives. It is still surprising that the same people come to power again and again in different hues as Congressmen or Sainiks. But then the poor do not really have a choice. Fifty years of independence has produced only more fiefdoms than what existed before.

Surjeet Singh,
Kangra, Himachal Pradesh

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