Ruling partner Shiv Sena has slammed Maharashtra's BJP-led government's decision to levy an additional surcharge on a host of items to raise money to tackle the drought situation in the state, dubbing it as 'pick pocketing'. Instead of resorting to this sort of a measure, the state should have sought a financial package from the Centre, similar to the one announced for Bihar, to help crisis-hit farmers, Sena's mouthpiece 'Saamana' said in an editorial today. "We can describe our state of finance in one word-pick pocketing. Remove a little from somebody's pocket, again remove some from somebody else's pocket and keep them in the treasury. Do we really need a finance minister at the Centre and in the state to do such things?" Sena said.

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