Nagpur Winter Session 2025: The festive events have taken place, but the processions in the morcha are not over. The question of what will be achieved from the session is also not over.

The winter session of the legislature has arrived. Nagpur has many political memories. Take an example. Gulabrao Gawande, a fierce leader from Varhad. In 2005, in protest against the anti-farmer moneylending law, he poured kerosene on himself in the assembly. At that time, he was the Shiv Sena MLA from Akot. He had to be suspended due to this act. In 2006, he took out a cycle yatra from Akola to Nagpur for the price of agricultural produce. The kerosene on his body caught fire in the news. The cycle yatra remained relatively ignored. The changing world is more interested in flashy events than constructive initiatives. There is concern that there will be a real activist garrison in it.

The political heat heats up every winter in Nagpur. The shape of the legislative session has changed compared to the previous ones. The reputation of struggling to solve the problems of the common people has long since disappeared. Earlier, leaders used to get hot heads while getting rooms for MLA residences. Now, even after ‘chilling’ many rooms, a few activists linger there by mistake. Even when there is a 45 crore improvement there, leaders prefer big hotels. Leaders are busy in the world of white shirts, black jackets, expensive cars and lavish parties. Earlier, marches of fifty thousand people used to take out. Even those who reach the sub-capital have realized that the problem is not solved by just walking on the roads. Such an overthrow of the trust of the common people is shocking.

In the winter of 1994, there was a stampede on the road to the legislature. 114 Gowaris died due to suffocation. A long flyover has been built on that road. The administration has named it after the martyred Gowari brothers and has taken it as a sign of happiness. Taking that lesson, the government set up a dome with a capacity of 5,000 protesters in Dabha and 2,000 in Jafarnagar for the occupied protesters. Nagpur's image changed like this. Once upon a time, the Indian cricket team used to stay at the Radhika Hotel on Birdi. Now there are many renowned options in the glittering hospitality sector. Two Taj hotels are under construction at the insistence of the Chief Minister. Advanced categories like Atmosphere Core, Hilton, Hyatt are coming to Nagpur. During the session, some hotels have reached seventy thousand people every day. Tigers in sanctuaries like Tadoba, Pench, and Karhandla always attract political circles. There is a lot of talk about safaris. You will understand how much the roar of tigers and leopards in the village and city limits resonates in the legislature.

There are currently 33 ministers in the state. There are 24 cottages in Ravi Bhavan. The remaining nine ministers will stay in Nag Bhavan. In the coming time, there will be modern bungalows there at a cost of 236 crores. A proposal of 94 crores is ready to give government ownership to 120 offices in rented buildings. Approximately 18 thousand officers come to Nagpur. The fuel cost for 1,157 vehicles last year was around 1.5 crores. While crores of rupees were being spent, contractors stopped work in Nagpur for payments of 150 crores. Finally, a solution was reached. During the session, there is a habit of 'compromises'. The aggressive Gulabrao of that time has calmed down and settled in Sharad Pawar's NCP.

There will be marches. The 'step' of the legislature will be more prominent than the assembly. The Nagpur Accord of 1953 will be witnessed. This same agreement had taken away the hundred-year-old capital status from Nagpur. Although it guaranteed an independent session of at least a month, the session will end in just seven days by imposing a 100 crores tila. Tila is such a polite word. The anti-Vaidarbhaya agitators call it 'chuna'. There is a constructive expectation from the political heat in Nagpur that their word should be broken.