nagpur this seemed like lip service from affluent western maharashtra to poor cousin vidarbha ncp supremo sharad pawars daughter supriya sule who recalled fond memories of nagpur from her childhood and trips to tadoba with her father during winter sessions of assembly also expressed deep concern over vidarbhas plight for her the problem often attributed to state governments neglect had a rather simple solution you just need to lobby hard for your region tie up with fiand cii and it will help in bringing investment even we lobby for our constituency and there is nothing wrong in it she said and that was it of course she also expressed the need of having more irrigation facilities here but just skimmed the topic on demand for separate vidarbha sule said her party was supporting telangana statehood and would back vidarbha too provided the local people demanded it there has to be real public uproar and not a cooked up one she said sule was speaking at a meeting on regions backwardness organized by vidarbha economic development council ved her speech preceded a detailed presentation on vidarbhas backlog and the history of statehood demand sule too touched upon each of vidarbhas problems expressing concern over it but stopped short of blaming the state government for them neither did she suggest any move from government side passing the buck to voluntary organizations like ved and local leaders a pet western maharashtra tactic to deny other regions their due when asked if she would tell at least ncp ministers to solve regions problems her answer they are all seniors i can only request them on a question by toi about her assessment of public support to the statehood she said the public seemed indifferent or maybe content i have only recently begun touring this region but could not see any public support for separate state they seem rather content if at all they speak of any hardships they are very general in nature she said about the charge of western maharashtra eating into vidarbhas share of resources sule said she would not agree with that perception western maharashtra has its own problems that need to be addressed the main concern is water there is a major dry spell with the dams already dry in fact sharad pawar is touring baramati to assess the situation she said for sule statehood demand also lacks strong political will there is hardly any local leader pushing for separate vidarbha and many are not too keen to leave maharashtra she said even in the parliament not a single mp raises the demand in fact vidarbha has become a joke whenever there is an uproar for telangana they say in lighter vein lets see if someone is talking about vidarbha too said sule on the regions problems malnourishment in melghat touched her the most for cotton farmers she said the commerce ministry made a huge mistake by hastily banning exports a msp of at least rs 5000 per quintal is