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It is, therefore, distressing that certain local political formations in Maharashtra succumb to the temptation of parochialism every once in a while by projecting non-existent antagonism between ‘natives’ and ‘outsiders’. Invariably, it is Mumbai, India’s first and still the most cosmopolitan city, which bears the brunt of their insularity. In the 1960s, their target was Dakshin Bharatiyas (South Indians). Now, resentment is sought to be whipped up against Uttar Bharatiyas (North Indians).
The notion that any city or part of India belongs only to its ‘natives’ is unconstitutional, repugnant and injurious to the ideal of national unity and integration. From time immemorial, our people have freely moved from one part of the country to another, believing all of India to be their own. As far as Mumbai is concerned, although it is the capital of Maharashtra, people from every corner of the country have migrated to this city of dreams and opportunities since its inception. Mumbai is what it is today because of the contribution of diverse communities inhabiting it. In particular, the two sources of its national and international profile — business and Bollywood — would be unthinkable without a grateful recognition of the role of non-Marathi speaking communities. It would be a great misfortune if Mumbai degenerated into a provincial capital.
Therefore, Raj Thackeray, whose Maharashtra Navanirman Sena has made impressive strides in a short time after breaking away from the Shiv Sena, has done no good either to Maharashtra’s proud reputation, or to himself, by making ill-advised remarks about North Indians in Mumbai or about a national icon like Amitabh Bachchan. He has a promising political future. He would, therefore, do well to win the support of the city’s considerable population of North Indians in his inclusive political strategy, without being apologetic about espousing legitimate Marathi pride.
While one must condemn anything that weakens our unifying Indian identity, it would be hypocritical to turn a blind eye to certain harsh social and political realities of Mumbai. With 1.9 crore residents in the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, which includes Navi Mumbai and Thane, its population has rapidly grown to become greater than the combined population of nine Indian states. Its once-famed infrastructure is highly overstretched, lowering the quality of life for rich and poor alike. It once had the best municipal governance in India; not any more. Fifty-four per cent of its residents live in slums, most of which are so unbelievably congested and squalid that it is criminal on the part of any government to let people live in such inhuman conditions. It is well known to authorities that tens of thousands of Bangladeshis, many with voting rights, are living in Mumbai. Some 20,000 houses in the older part of the city are in a dangerously dilapidated state, the reason why every monsoon one reads about people dying in incidents of house collapse.
Mumbai is decaying. But few politicians in the city, state or country are taking a serious and comprehensive view of its chronic condition, and fewer still are willing to take the tough decisions to set things right. By tough decisions, one does not mean banning ‘outsiders’ — north Indians or Indians from any other part of India — from settling in Mumbai. That certainly is wrong. But is it wrong to hold that encroachments should be stopped, that people must not be allowed to occupy pavements and places earmarked for public utilities, or that the cut-off years for regularisation of slums must be strictly adhered to?
Indeed, some political parties have developed a vested interest in allowing unauthorised settlements to proliferate for vote-bank considerations. When illegal settlements along the lethally polluted Mithi river were sought to be cleared after the July 2005 deluge in Mumbai, which claimed nearly 500 lives, it was stoutly resisted by local politicians who felt threatened that their voter-base would shrink. Mumbaikars know of hundreds of such examples of duplicity and political muscle-flexing.
The question that Raj Thackeray and many people in Mumbai are asking is: How can slum redevelopment and rehabilitation ever succeed if there is political patronage for the creation of new slums? How can Mumbai ever see orderly urban development, with world-class infrastructure and civic amenities for all its residents, if there is deliberate and corruption-induced disorder in the use of its most scarce resource — land? Indeed, which Indian city can grow well if short-term and partisan political interests undermine a long-term and integral vision of urban renewal?
Hence, some of Raj Thackeray’s concerns are right, but he has voiced them wrongly.
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Whatever he is doing is correct mumbai facing sanitary problems and cannot accomodate more people due to migration mumbaikar facing problem and he is raising that issue.. whats wrong in that.
Raj Thackeray certainly does not care for the Maharashtrians. Last time he was arrested for flouting the law, his party workers torched private vehicles, many of which belonged to Maharashtrians. He is just exploiting the sense of inadequacy fostered by his community to further his own nefarious political ambitions. Mumbai attracts investors & MNCs becoz of the diversity of talent here. If only Maharashtrians were left in this state, all of them would pack up & go elsewhere. Anyway why do Maharashtrians need preferential status in their own home town where anyways they have the upper hand? Is there any dearth of talent amongst them? Can't they become successful on their own merit, instead of asking for reservations? People who support parties like MNS & Shiv Sena do so becoz they want short cuts to get ahead in life. They lack talent & fortitude to compete with others. They also do not have the foresight to understand that they are hacking their own feet.
Thanks God Mr/Miss Kulkarni, at lest you have understood one of the problems of all, but you have commented that Raj has voice it wrongly, Now you show us the right way to voice all the problems......Let us see what you do about it.....
if a family live happily in a house n if the frnd of d husband whoever religion he may b of is been invited n if the person starts capturing his house then what shud b the step of the person????Yes, voilence is bad infact very bad as even Lord Krishna tried to prevent the kurukshetra war but voilence took place in the presence of god so that the dharma defeats adharm.n Adharm must b defeated by any means. Now the govt. is corrupted. Almost everyone has lost the capacity to diffrentiate adharm n dharm. there r numerous examples given by Raj thakeray which r the facts but media projects it wrongly. we get a news of how MNS committed voilence in maharashtra but do we get UP or Bihari news that wats the condition of marathis over thr?? sum parts of UP. N Bihar is still backward. if politicians care for them really thn they cud hv made their state a secure place..Migration n Ruling is different..if mumbai is of everyone thn why the whole world cant live in this particular area??
mumbai is capital of maharashtra. all maharashtrian people first right over mumbai. in mumbai give 90% jobs to local and then 10% give others.
Mr a , whoever u r? first go & tell the ministers of UP & bihars to developed der states instead of giving ur useless speech
YOU ARE TOTOLLY WRONG
1.why is raj's son studyng in english mediam instead of marathi ? 2 Why is his lawyer a north indian ? 3.why all his party hordings are put by north indians 4.why his own place kinhinoor sqare display was in english and not in marathi ? 5.what abt marathis staying in rest of india ..should they also be beaten ? 6.mumbai has developed in films and stock market ,business mainly bcos of the work of people from diverse india ? 7.respect marathi culture is fine ,but violence is not good at all ..
What raj wants to make everybody understand is actually minconveyed.. what he actually wants i.e he wants everybody to respect marathi asmita,,,,,, if u cant then u cant live in mumbai or elsewhere in maharshtra,, cause if one is not respected in his own house,,obviously he would show tht person the door,,,, can anybody answer if marathi is not spoken in maharashtra then where will it be spoken,,, if the politicians in maharashtra are not marathis then where will it be,, if marathi people are not given first preference in maharashtra then where???? marahthi asmita has to be protected ,, and whatever raj is doing is perfect cause thats the only way i think we can voice ourselves,,otherwise people won hear uss,,, jai hind jai maharshtra...
Because, he is not agains any language he thinks that marathi people shold get prefrence. In UPSC only UP and Bihari candidates got selected only Verma, Sharma, Gupta etc. marathi people rejected in Interview bcoz of presense of UP/Bihar Lobby. He is agains of this type of corruption.
what are you? 5 years old? That's not the point he is making you moron.He expects every migrant to at least understand Marathi so that language like Hindi doesn't dominate Marathi. Why are his children supposed to study in Marathi school, moron. He is not prejudiced against North Indians, he is only asking your respect towards my culture & language idiot. You say respect Marathi culture is fine, do you do so? If you did, you would have bothered to see the other side of the coin & seen how a common Marathi person lives his/her life. What am I wasting my time for? You guys are freeloaders who just want to invaded this land & make pillage the natives & people like me are not gonna let that happen. Not on my watch. All of you are most welcome, but you'll have to understand us in our language or we have no space for you. Get it?
I dont know what age group you belong. but you certainly does not belong to Adulthood. You talks are not unfit for public reading but also misleading. Stop thinking Mumbai is urs. Its for every INDIAN. i guess you guys need a life or better education. Mumbai tumchi, bhandi ghasha aamchi.. this was used few decades back by guju's for same reasons. Grow up ignorant people.
I DONT THINK THAT IN MUMBAI IS ISSUE BETWEEN MARATHI AND NON-MARATHI, HERE THE MAIN ISSUE IS ABOUT THE VOTE BANK , IN MUMBAI THAKREY FAMILY IS FIGTING TO EACH OTHER AND THEY SHOWING THAT THEY ARE DOING FOR THE MUMBAIKAR,NO THEY ARE DOING THIS STUPID THING FOR THEMSELF.THEY ALL ARE SAME .I AM AGREE ON JOB ISSUE THAT MARATHI PEAOPLE SHOULD GET 80% JOB , BUT THIS CRITERIA COMES ONLY IN STATE GOVERMNENT JOBSNOT IN PRIVATE SECTOR ,I BORN IN MUMBAI AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN A SINGLE NON MARATHI EMPLOYEE IN GOVERNMENT JOB.THESE POLITICIAN ARE PLAYING WITH EMOTION OF MUMBAIKAR.JUST THINK ONCE WHY SHIV SENA IS NOW SO AGRESSIVE NOW , BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY ARE LOOSING THE VOTE OF MARATHI MANUS .THATS WHY THEY ARE RAISING THESE STUPID ISSUE,NO BODAY IS TALKING ABOUT VIDARBHA FARMER,ON AN AVERGARE DAILY 1 OR 2 FARMER IS SUCIDING BUT THESE POLITICIAN HAVE NO TIME FOR THEM.SO FRIENDS WE ALL KNOW WHAT IS WRITE OR WRONG.SO PLEASE DONT SUPPORT THE POLITICAIAN WHOS IS GOOD FOR NOTHING.JAI HIND
Dear Readers It is really sad to write on this topic because of some stupid persons like Raj Thackerey whom I can say one of them is trying to destroy the social fabric of this great nation, in other words to start the begining of disintergration of our country. The governtment should not bow down and tolerate such incidents and deal with such individuals who tries to destroy social fabric with an Iron fist come what is the result. Such individuals cannot do any good and should be put behind bars permanently so that others do not venture into it in future. Mike
if Raj Thackerey is stupid person then why he got lacks of votes? Raj Thackereys ideology is not bad.he has strong issues & people accepted it.
I completely agree with what Sudheendra;s viewpoint,i feel the tragedy with us is that we are hindus first indian next muslim first an indian next, a north indian first an indian next , a marathi first an indian next , probably we have not yet realised that it is because of this divison & this callous attitude that we were ruled by foreigners for over 500 years. But yes even the problem of Mumbai needs to be highlighted, the solution lies in developing other cities & towns, the tragedy with india is that the politicians have not paid heed in developing other states but having said that i would also like to point out that neither the thackeray;s of the world nor any other political party has done anything for the development for the Mumbai. Mumbai is Mumbai today because of the effort of Britishers & different communities of india. The essence of Mumbai is that you can find people for each state here which you can't find in any other city. I request Mr Raj Thackeray not to destroy that
THE ISSUES RAISED BY RAJ THAKRE ARE CORRECT BUT THE WAY HE IS GOING IS INCORRECT. BY THIS WAY THE ISSUES RELATED WITH DIFFICULTIES OF MARATHI PERSONS ARE REMAINING UNTOUCHED. DUE TO UNITY OF NON MARATHIS MOST OF THE GOVT LICENCES LIKE RAILWAY CONTEENS, PETROL PUMPS, RATION SHOPS, BSNL FRENCHISEES, WINE SHOPS ECT PERTAINS TO NONMARATHIS. MOST OF THE SUBSEDEES GIVEN IN THE MAHARASHTRA ARE ENJOYED BY THE NONMARATHIS. MARATHIS CAN GIVE THESE BENIFITS TO STRENGER BUT CAN NOT SHARE BENEFIT WITH OTHER CAST MARATHI PERSON. THE MOST POWERFUL CAST MARATHA PEOPLE ARE BUSY IN POLITICS, GRABING GOVT JOBS, EDUCATIONAL JOBS AND BECOMMING DEPENDENT ON GOVT ADE PROGRAMMES ONLY. THEY ARE NOT DOING ANY THING IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIES. ALSO NOT HELPING OTHER CAST MARATHI PEOPLE IN THIS FIELD. INSTEAD OF THAT THEY SUPPORT NON MARATHI PERSON AND USE THEIR MONEY FOR MAKING POLITICS. HENCE DEVIDED MARATHI PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITED BY NONMARATHIS. PROBLEM IS IN MARATHI PEOPLE AND NOT IN NON MARATHI PEOPLE.
Mr whoever you are, The problem is with your politicians from North India. what about Rahul gandhi and leaders like lalu yadav, mayawati. what have they done in UP and Bihar for its development. Marathi people have their name in every field may it be IT , Finance. And the fact that they are not in Business is a old story. give me your email address and I will send you list of all succesful marathi business man. you know who owns Airtel its a maharshtrian. so dont talk nonsense. blame your politicians who have done no good to provide jobs in UP and Bihar and want to exploit Maharashtra for north Indians. I guess your leaders and you people dont have self respect inspite of getting beaten up and insulted you never even think of developing UP and Bihar. Dont take due advantage of National unity. we also want unity but not at the cost of marathi people and culture. so understand the message from Raj Saheb and then talk. Jai Hind Jai Maharshtra
I agree with you for the most part. I'd just like to point out that Mr. Mittal, the founder and CEO of Bharti enterprises (the owner of Airtel) is a Punjabi. Other than that oversight, I believe that you are right. However, violence is not the answer.
Firstly Raj is not fighting against all north indians, its only against people and politiceans from UP, Bihar and MP as they try to show thier power to marathi manoos,and hence raj never said anything against Punjabi's or people from J&k as they are also north indians. Secondly its not bcoz people from other states came in mumbai and helped mumbai to grow. Maharashtrian people created oportunities in mumbai which was taker by others. If others are so hard working peoples why they dont work in thier states and develope it. And due to this maharashtra goverment is spending so much amount on people came from other state and not able to help thire own state farmer who is commeting sucide on every day in thousands of number.
Mr.Jadhav your comment that Maharashtrian people created oportunities in mumbai which was taken by others is completely wrong, please take trouble to read the history, Gujrati traders creates opportunities in mumbai, and then later on when bombay flourished you had different region and religion people who came here to establish business and make bombay what it is today. The fact is all these menial jobs like milkman, cleaning gutters, etc etc will be done by very few maharashtrians and thats why to fill the gap these so called Bhaiyyas are doing it. Raj;s motive is right but he is fighting against innocent people who dont even know why they are getting beaten. he should be fighting against north indian politcians.
6. Every other day we hear news jawans losing life in Kashmir and more often than not these jawans are from Punjab,uttarakhand or Haryana. 7. In kargil war the highest number of causalities were from uttarakhand followed by Punjab and Haryana again. Maharashtra was third from the bottom! All I am trying to prove by these facts are you can%u2019t build martial credentials on mere talks. It is something which you either have it or not. SO any dreams of pure Maharashtrain NSG at best would remain a dream and at worst our ultimate nightmare!
3. If you go through the list of winners of Victoria cross/Indian medal of merit/ Param vir chakra, you would find 98% of them has been won by Gurkhas,Sikhs,Garhwalis and Kumaonis. 4. The contribution of Punjab, Haryana and uttarakhand in modern day Indian army is 80%. As a matter of fact the Sikh regiment and the Kumaon regiment are the most decorated regiments of Indian army and of the two the kumaon regiment is fairly young regiment as the kumaonis used to fight under gurkha and garhwal rifles in pre-independence days. 5. Even in the recent memory the two most high profile incident where NSG was involved, the aksharadham temple and Mumbai attacks, if you can recollect involved NSG commandos from Uttarakhand and Haryana. We all know about Gajendra singh Bist and Surjan Singh Bhandari (both from uttarakhand) as they were bestowed by martyrdom during these operation.
Guys lot of talk in other forums have been based around having a marathi NSG. Here are few facts I would like to share with you all. Great as the suggestion of MH having it%u2019s own NSG might sound, It%u2019s a ridiculous preposition. Here are some facts for you (you can google wiki or anything and can verify them) 1. Although Maratha empire was successful it was basically based around the leadership qualities of Shivaji rather than any martial credentials of Marathi people. As a matter of fact the British didn%u2019t even recognise Marathas/Maharashtrains as martial race and they credited rise of Maratha empire to historical circumstances and good leadership of shivaji. 2. The British hardly recruited marathis in their army. The british army which fought the world wars was dominated by Gurkhas, Sikhs, Kumaonis, Garhwalis (present day Uttarakhand) and pathans.
My Dear friend i think your History knowledge is vry poor. Thats y u r making these comments i will give you list of some maratha empire in india 1. Gwaliors Shinde 2. Indores Holkar 3. Barodas Gaikwad 4. Jhanshi's Newalkar 5. Tanjawar,Nagpur,Satara and Kolhapurs : Bhonsale these are major and thousands of minor empires created by great marathas i dont think any rajput,punjabi, gurkha have created there own empire outside there state or region.
See I would Like to clear this thing to Everyone.Raj Thakare is not against any North Indian or someone. He is against those North Indian people who are illegally staying in mumbai.Many of them are not having their Ration cards from Mumbai still they are running the Taxis on The Mumbai's Road.If Bihar are UP are so much developed then why these people are coming to Mumbai.This is is because of their(Bihar and UP) Government who can not developed their own States.There are more than 1 Crore North Indians are staying in Maharashtra which is equal to 8-9 % of Total Maharashtra Population.
so instead of propogating that he is against people of UP and Bihar he should propogate against illegal enroachers whoever they may be be it tamil, telugu, punjabi, marathi, up, or bihari. this way he would have got increased faith from general public but instead he chose the wrong path.
I dont understsand why nationalism is given Hindi color. Please try to understand the facts. locals need jobs , you cannot give all jobs to outsiders 90% jobs should be given to locals
Why cant u ppl understand that mumbai nothing without marwadis, gujaratis and punjabis... n if u are talking abt the jobs for locals then we all konw that when we go for the interview there we arent asked that we r marathi or non-marathi...we get jobs on our capability... if marathi ppl want jobs then be capable for it...
i would like to say to writter, if all northen people will come to mumbai or maharashtra who will remain in north side, obviously lalu, mulayam, amarsing. it is truth. after 60 years from independance UP n bihar are not developed, because northen people are irritated by their politician named above. these people are educated with morals. all world knows the condition of UP n biharis. who is the responsible for this? government? system? they own? or lalu, mulayam, amarsingh? ans is all of them. Marathi man does not want to happen this in Maharashtra. limit is over. this is natural phenamena. all newspapers n channels are saying this is hooliganism. but who is abu azami? he was sentenced for one year about 1993 blast, for helping traitors of the country. to teach the people like azami this is very soft way. maharashtra is holy place. we should maintain it. this is the only a ray of hope to serve the country. maharashtra had given the history to country it will give better future also.
common hit abu again @ again
there is no doubt that purposefuly planned out agenda by goon abu azmi. kick him out of mumbai alongwith all outside leaders who are using their state people as a slave in this state. their states are not developed because of people like madhu koda...and lallu,mulayum and so on.
Raj Thakerey is absolutely wrong just because hi is dividing us in groups, religion, languages we are indian first and then marathi, punjabi, bihari etc we have all the right to speak hindi. He is doing all this just for publicity and for marathi votes, I am shocked when i came to know that he did not protest baba siddique when he took oath in english which is a foreign Language and he protest Hindio which is our own language so its quite clear that its a publicicity stunt and he has no right to play with the emotions of marathi Manus
Shahid if youask me i will say the way he MNS people hit peolpe or Abu Azmi was been slapped in Vidhan sabha was not correct some where but understand dude what ever the issue he has raised its very much correct. If some is fighting for Soil & for his language what is bad in that. And after all he has a data to proof that which noboby will dined i dont sopport any political party. I have personally seen that if you go to souh people dont speck hindi, they either speck there language or English. Check the Any south polition who speck hindi in the media every one respect there culture that why not marathi people.
For far too long, "ghatis" have been considered dumb, cloying pushovers, and treated as such. If one Raj Thackeray, or one Balasaheb represents the militant end of the spectrum, I only think it serves to balance the equation out.
when mumbai was attacked in 26/11 it was not raj or shiv sena who saved mumbai , it was nsg from varios states who saved mumbai
what were Sonia,Lalu,Rahul Gandi,Mulayam,Abu Azmi and all the so called (Fake) Mumbai Lovers doing when Mumbai was attcked on 26/11. Neither they nor Raj is trained to fight against terrorists. Why you want Raj when their is problem? Raj is precious for Maharashtra and we can sacrifice all lalus and Mulayams etc for him.
What Raj Thackeray was doing during attacks???What Raj Thackeray was doing during attacksYou dont know what Raj Thackeray was doing coz our Hindi Channels are suppressing those news
you are right!! raj thackerey is right as well as wrong. Wrong becuase Mumbai is what it is today becuase of two things Bollywood and Business and none of the credit for these two belongs to one linguistic minority or majority. If business and bollywood are moved out of Mumbai, it will die an immediate death and no one will suffer more than the average marathi manoos. Hes right becuase Mumbai is still dying inspite of these two becuase of constant immigration of people who do not have any money to stay in Mumbai and the official patronage given by the AAM AADMI PARTY to such people and the wrong housing policies of such parties-remember inspite of the sky high prices of real estate in Mumbai , ULCA was removed only recently.i am not a marathi but feel sad at some of the words used by Raj. He uses extreme language and violence to put forth his point, which is right in some ways. His tirade against AB and Jaya is especially in bad taste
we are independent mr. M gandhi. if bollywood industry wanna move out from mumbai,they can. we will establish new marathi industry.& dont forget that 50% people in whole india who like to watch hindi movies are maharashtrian.conclusion is without marathi people bollywood will get collapse.
rahul, independent??!! you mean not part of India. I am sure a marathi would never say this. You are a Paki!! why dont you talk about the corrupt Pawar and company who ruined Mumbai
i guess marathi FILM industry suffers cos even maharastrians like hindi. how many times have you seen hindi superstars in marathi movie? vice versa, almost everytime. If you want to free Mumbai from other communities. Please ensure your own COMMUNITY has education, manners, logical reasoning and Moral values. Or else all will shit like RAJU tak rey..
Raj Thackrey has been portraid by media as he is against north indians. But none of them havent observed his speeches closely. What is he actually talking about. Rajs only concerns is that people of mumbai should get their rights whether he is of any religion. And iam talking about the government institutions and not private offices. Railway recruitment exam is conducted in mumbai but its advertsements are given in UP and bihar and why because Lalu yadav is from that state.And why because lalu needs vote for his party in the next elections and wants to show what is he doing for the yputh as 50% of the votes are youth. People dont understand that if this politians are so damn cared about them then why dont they generate jobs so that they need to come else where. If exams are conducted fairly by giving advertsement all over india(am im saying abt the govt jobs) then no one will complaint and then those who get this jobs will be desrving.Although i believe hitting some one isnot justified