Vinod Nikole | SabrangIndia News Related to Human Rights Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:23:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://sabrangindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Favicon_0.png Vinod Nikole | SabrangIndia 32 32 Why isn’t anyone trying to buy this MLA in Maharashtra ? https://sabrangindia.in/why-isnt-anyone-trying-buy-mla-maharashtra/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:23:47 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2019/11/25/why-isnt-anyone-trying-buy-mla-maharashtra/ As everybody watches with bated breath the 'Game of Thrones' that modern day 'Chanakyas' and 'Renaissance men' play in public and applaud the complete lack of pretense that such naked ambition for power entails, one MLA is not interested.

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In a state where uncles can’t trust their nephews, readers can’t trust their newspapers and nobody trusts Sharad Pawar the catch of the season at Bhaucha Dhakka is a species called ‘MLA’ . Netted with great skill and experienced maneuvering (despite attempts at daylight robbery), each and every one of these MLAs count. Understandably, they are being made to feel important. Party managers turned tour managers are giving them free rides through the city, sometimes twice a day and free lodging at seven star hotels. If this is not Mumbai darshan, what is ? And why not ?On the other side lie temptations that only deputy chief ministers can hope to earn in one five year term. But for Vinod Nikole, there seems to be no respite. Even though he is an MLA in Maharashtra, he is not being invited to stay at Hyatt, nor taken to a resort in Jaipur, nor put on a chartered plane to Delhi, neither being offered cabinet positions. So what went wrong for him ?
 
 
Perhaps this is because no central minister, MLA hunter, political fixer or money bag has ever ventured as far as Dahanu where Vinod Nikole is stationed these days. He was elected from the adivasi dominated Dahanu on a CPI(M) ticket and it is in Dahanu that he is leading a massive rasta roko outside the SDO office demanding immediate relief for farmers whose kharif crops were damaged by unseasonal rainfall. This was apparently only a pit stop in his tour of 7 tehsils in Thane Palghar district to take part in massive rallies organised by the CPI(M) and Kisan Sabha to demand adequate compensation for farmers. 
 
Vinod Nikole is Maharashtra’s poorest MLA and his story  made headlines after his stunning victory. So why isn’t anyone trying to buy Vinod Nikole ? Perhaps because they know that he is not for sale. 
 

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]]> The Adivasi communist who made it to the Maha assembly https://sabrangindia.in/adivasi-communist-who-made-it-maha-assembly/ Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:46:25 +0000 http://localhost/sabrangv4/2019/10/25/adivasi-communist-who-made-it-maha-assembly/ The lone communist legislator in the newly elected Maharashtra assembly, CPI(M)’s Vinod Nikole, is a 43 year old Adivasi leader who defeated the BJP’s sitting MLA Pascal Dhanare by a margin of 4,742 votes. He has won from the Dahanu(ST) assembly seat in the Palghar district of Maharashtra. Barely hours away from Mumbai, the hilly […]

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]]> The lone communist legislator in the newly elected Maharashtra assembly, CPI(M)’s Vinod Nikole, is a 43 year old Adivasi leader who defeated the BJP’s sitting MLA Pascal Dhanare by a margin of 4,742 votes. He has won from the Dahanu(ST) assembly seat in the Palghar district of Maharashtra. Barely hours away from Mumbai, the hilly villages of Palghar are home to some of the poorest people in the state. Most of them are Adivasis. 

Vinod Nikole, coming from a poor peasant family, is however a full time party member of the CPI(M). He was among the 40,000 peasants who walked the entire 200 Km route of the AIKS-led Kisan Long March from Nashik to Mumbai in March 2018.

The CPI(M) has won the Dahanu (earlier Jawhar) seat for the ninth time since 1978. This is the district of the famed Warli Adivasi revolt in the mid 1940s led by legendary AIKS leaders, Comrades Shamrao Parulekar and Godavari Parulekar.
 

Among other leaders who addressed public meetings in the Dahanu seat were CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat. The month-long election campaign campaign itself was led by many including CPI(M) Central Committee members Dr Ashok Dhawale and Mariam Dhawale, state secretariat members Barkya Mangat and Kisan Gujar and many other leaders from the constituency.  
 

In fact the results of the six assembly seats in the Palghar district offer a glimpse into what an united opposition can achieve. The united front of CPI(M), Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA), NCP, Congress and Kashtakari Sanghatana has won 5 of the 6 assembly seats – BVA in Vasai, Nalasopara and Boisar, NCP in Vikramgad and CPI(M) in Dahanu. The Shiv Sena won only in the Palghar seat. The BJP was trounced in both the seats that it contested and the Shiv Sena was defeated in 3 seats.
 

But there was disappointment in store for seven time CPI(M) MLA Jiva Pandu Gavit who lost the Kalwan assembly constituency to NCP by about six thousand votes. Comrade Gavit is known as a firebrand communist leader who was instrumental in organizing the Kisan long march in 2018.
 

The victory of Vinod Nikole rekindles hope for left wing and other progressive forces in Maharasthra. His tenure in the assembly will be watched closely. 

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