Saturday, October 25, 2008

raj sarkar to get over

raj thackeray got arrested around 22 october 2008, on the grounds of inciting communal disharmony. when i heard that, i sighed with relief. at least there is some hope that raj sarkar will get over. they have done enough damage already. in IPC 153, there is a provision where a person can be persecuted on the grounds of fanning volatile religious angst. raj thackeray and family have not contributed to anything great in mumbai or elsewhere. however, it is surprising how the shiv sena (bal thackeray's) has brilliant shakha pramukhs. i am not kidding. look at anand dighe and the shakha pramukh/ nagarsevika of chunnabhatti... these people did real work. it is not easy to digest that a political party which solely survives on gundagardi has good people working for them. if people are that good then why do they support cheap gundagardi by joining a party like shiv sena (MNS is no different from shiv sena). one thing that i disagree with is raj's hatred towards everybody who is not from mumbai. it is taking mumbai meri jaan wala funda to the extreme. until india does not develop uniformally nothing will change. migration will continue to over populous cities... raj is reacting to a surface problem, probably afraid to scratch it.