Raj Thackeray did manage to comb out a controversy during the elections. His party MNS, tried to close down the screening of Wake up Sid because it referred Mumbai as Bombay. I have a few more suggestions for them. How about Bombay House ( Tata's headquarters)? Ratan Tata must be missing being harassed by Mamata Banerjee so Raj can fill the space. And also the famous restaurant chain, Bombay Blues. How did that miss Raj's eagle's eye? I am sure there might be a dozen more options, that Raj can explore in his quest to create a ruckus to garner Marathi votes.
Now, I would think that its so clear that Raj is playing petty politics and who would adhere to his silly tactics. But I am so wrong. If that would be the case, he would not have managed to build a strong enough base for fighting elections. I have heard Maharastrians defending him as they think of him as championing their cause. Once I was driving in Mumbai and had a small skirmish with an autorickshaw which had an old Maharastrian man as his passenger. The man started cursing me in chaste Marathi saying that my days are over and Raj Thackeray is soon going to drive me out of the city. I was dumbstruck, also because the driver was a 'bhaiiya'. And this man looked like an educated, middle class, well to do citizen.
So even if we might argue that Raj is being stupid, he is intelligent enough to know his target audience and know that he is hitting the nail on head. Many argue that his ways of doing it may not be noble, but what he says makes perfect sense because Maharastrians do feel left behind in Mumbai's progress. Now I would not agree to this, but I do agree that people get the government they deserve. Whether it is Mayawati or Raj Thackeray, they are in that position because people support them. As long as we let them exploit our feelings, they will happily oblige.
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To entice the Lower Nature Of the Human Beings is so simple just because of the deprivation and poverty.Unless the human consciousness is attuned to the fact that there is enough and abundant for every human being on Planet earth , the violence in the form of deprivation and poverty shall keep on continuing. In the words of the great teacher of modern times J krishnamurthy ," The present crisis of human kind is the crisis in consciousness , you alter the human consciousness to a higher level you remove the prevailing crisis". Till then over to Raj Thackeray and his brigade to thrive on lower sense of discrimination of human beings.
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