Sachin Tendulkar must be preplexed. While he should be enjoying completing 20 years in the world of cricket and setting a record, he is busy becoming a target for all politicians. His innocent remark about his being an Indian first and then Maharashtrian (weren't we taught that in school) has invoked response from all quarters of politics. The current scoreboard reads like this, Congress and BJP in favour of Sachin, Bal Thackeray (I wonder which school he went to) led Shiv Sena against him and Mr. Raj from MNS yet to declare. Raj must be contemplating that whether his remarks against Sachin will aleinate or bring together his Marathi folk. (And after his win in elections, even I think these things are of utmost importance.)
Sachin has definitely bowled a googly and Bal Tackeray struck it without thinking about the consequences. You can even be pardoned for speaking against Amitabh Bachachan in Maharashtra (no thanks to the way he associates himself to Amar Singh) but when it comes to Sachin its a different ball game altogether. Though this sounds amusing to me that because Sachin is a Maharashtrian his comment cannot be contested when he says India first but because AB is from UP his comment can be contested.
Its good to see Sachin rise to the occasion though. When any faction of Muslim does anything wrong, prominent Muslims are expected to publicly speak against them to show their patriotism towards India. I see an analogy because now prominent Maharashtrians are also expected to speak up against the so called Marathi Manoos gang.
For now it looks like that the great Sachin Tendulkar is also not spared in being made a scapegoat. Am sure he is not very ecstatic about being supported by some parties and them making an example out of him because he doesn't want to play political favourites. And while this happens, the whole nation watches our politicians playing the tug of war with the great man.
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