Vidarbha package with eye on ’14 LS polls?

The Centre is gearing up to unveil a special package for Vidarbha in Maharashtra on the lines of Bundelkhand in a bid to improve the condition of cotton farmers in the region, which has seen unabated suicides by debt-trapped people in recent years. The move is being seen as an attempt by the Congress-led UPA government to position strongly for Lok Sabha elections two years later in 2014.

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