In Maharashtra, the objective of the Shiv Sena or its spin off Maharashtra Navnirmaan Sena is to secure more representation for Marathis mainly in jobs. It now appears that neither the objective nor the means to achieve it is justified and have divisive undertones. A clear divide has been created between Indians and Maharashtrians by both Shiv Sena and MNS. If a South Indian or a Gujarati can come and work in Maharashtra or Mumbai in particular, then why there is allergy to people from North especially when all the Gods the Maharashtrians worship too hail from UP.
India is a democratic country and the Constitution provides the right to its citizen to live and work anywhere in the country. If a north Indian chooses to live and work in Maharashtra then a Maharashtrian too has the right to work and live in any part of the country. And, they are. Hence, the plea that Raj or Shiv Sena are working for the betterment of the Maharashtrians is mere a political stunt to enhance their political future. Otherwise, the MNS or Shiv Sena would have been “also a party of not much significance.” Interestingly, Shiv Sena leader Udhav Thackeray said recently in an interview to a newspaper that what Raj is replaying the Shiv Sena record and won’t last long.
Secondly, if there is a grievance of lesser representation in jobs there are thousand and one ways to redeem it. No one has the right in this free and democratic country to kill or cause bodily harm to any person to achieve any end. By killing people you can’t reduce the number of north Indian job seekers. Why don’t the Marathi Manoos respond to the advertisements? We haven’t heard anything like regional quota in any kind of Government jobs. There is no question of preference for any community.. The whole game plan is to wrest the seats in the “golden goose” Corporation. The more popular they are , the more seats they win. And, after that we will come to know who is really bothered about Maharashtra.
It was shocking to learn from the Defence Counsel of Raj Thackeray, Mr. Akhilesh Chaubey, a North Indian himself, that the North Indians are creating law and order problems. Mr. Chaubey is forgetting that Dharavi existed from time immemorial. I have been visiting Mumbai every year since 1981; I have never found it clean or traffic rules being followed. In fact that is an all India phenomenon. So, blaming North Indians for all ills is nothing but a political stunt.
“Public,” said Napolean “is fickle.” This is exactly what has been happening in Maharashtra today. Shiv Sena and MNS, are making full use of these words of Napolean. It is mainly aforementioned parties that are blindly playing the sectarian politics card on the fickle minds of the public without realizing the consequences. Also, their leaders are taking the country where the British had left it — divided and bruised. But they are unable to gauge the seriousness of the situation they have pushed the nation in — a 1947 like situation.
We hope Maharashtra would not take lead in this direction.
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