Having lived in Mumbai for almost 15 years I was always impressed with the manner in which it remained a cosmopolitan city with no regional biases. I always wondered whether any of the other metros could ever become! Delhi had a distinct Punjabi imprint, Kolkata a distinct Bengali imprint and Chennai was always patently Tamilian. Mumbai was the exception, it was truly cosmopolitan and possibly that stems from the wonderful outlook of the average Maharastrian! Then comes Raj Thackeray with is warped sense of Marathi manoos and his attempts to exile non maharastrians! He is crazy and we know that the whole issue is mere posturing vis-?is his parent party the Shiv Sena! Then comes the question of who is sponsoring him - without doubt it is the NCP/Congress! They realize that Raj can split the Shiv sena votes and if he succeeds up to the expected levels he may help NCP/Congress to come back to power! A bonus would be if the issue gets some sort of backing from the Shiv Sena. That would help in forcing the BJP to distance itself from the Shiv Sena! BJP has too much stake in UP and Bihar to lose if they don%u2019t resist this 'outsider' fight in Mumbai! Only a fool would believe that NCP/Congress government would act against Raj Thackeray - who is a performing flea in their political circus! The judiciary is the only thing that could solve this problem!
RE:The Circus will go on !
by Nilesh Madhavi on May 27, 2008 05:49 AM Permalink
Your are right mere dost, Look at Shivsena since last 5 years they have started entrtaining UP and Biharis Marathi Manus gaya unka this is all politics :) but agar local people loose their jobs or people keep coming to Mumabi what will happen to infrastructure this is going to explode.Decentralize Mumbai the best solution
