Manufacturing drought, Maharashtra style!

If there is no water in the dam…should we urinate into it?" was Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's response to a fasting drought victim from Solapur. The state is reeling under one of its worst-ever droughts. While Pawar was forced to apologise for his "piss in the dam" remark, the truth is that many large dam projects that Pawar and his government have been pushing aggressively are turning out to be the most expensive urinals ever built, with many of them yet to be completed.

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