Sarkar Raj Thackeray

“I don’t know who Raj Thackeray is?” This was the statement given the yesteryear’s actress and the current Rajyasabha MP Ms. Jaya Bachchan, when the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena aka MNS Chief Mr. Raj Thackeray attacked the Legendry actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan for starting girls’ High school in the town of Allahabad instead of a town in Maharashtra. But now nobody can say that he or she doesn’t know Raj Thackeray, as Mr. Raj Thackeray has become a national figure after his arrest drama. Of course, the media has played a vital role in making him a person of national importance. But this Thackeray Junior has stirred the atmosphere not only in the state of Maharashtra but also the states like UP, Bihar and Haryana. Nobody will advocate the way MNS activists have beaten the Bihari students, but the issue of ignoring sons of soils in the railway recruitment process has awakened the people of Maharashtra against the government’s faulty administration. This made Raj Thackeray and MNS gain Marathi population’s sympathy. No wonder Raj Thackeray has become the successor of the ShivSena Supremo Bal Thackeray. India is a democratic country, promoting the freedom to the residents of this country to roam in any part of India. This is what we call as unity in diversity. But to be honest, the natives of states like Bihar, themselves do not want to settle down in their hometowns due to many reasons. And Maharashtra is one state where there is a very conducive atmosphere for one to develop. And the most convenient and alluring thing for any Indian to settle down in Maharashtra is that one doesn’t have to really learn the native language here. Outsiders can easily survive here with the knowledge of our National (or official?) language, i.e. Hindi. Moreover, the people here are tolerable and welcoming to outsiders unlike many other states of our country. So a substantial amount of population from other states like Bihar, UP and southern states have settled in Mumbai and Maharashtra. But when the government jobs in railways in the state of Maharashtra were awarded to outsiders, the new Political party like MNS protested against this in a violent way. 

The same thing also happened a couple of years back when the “Marathi Hridaysamrat” (Marathi Heartthrob) Mr. Raj Thackeray was in Shivsena. But the government ignored those protests and now it took a violent turn. Though everybody says that the protests should have been done in a non-violent way, can anybody really think that by mere complaining the issue would have been addressed or looking at the discrimination done with sons of the soils, the candidates from other states would not have taken the exam? Of course not, as we are not living in a Ramrajya. And it so happened that all the political leaders in Bihar and UP, those who never come together for any constructive purpose, this time came together against Mr. Raj Thackeray only to make him popular. The popularity (or hatred?) of Mr. Raj Thackeray compelled a youth Rahul Raj from Patna to take 15 passengers in a bus to hostage to reach Mr. Raj Thackeray. But unfortunately, he could not reach Mr. Raj Thackeray and was killed by Mumbai Police in an encounter. Now politics is still being played on the youth’s death. Again all the political leaders in Bihar is propagating that Mr. Raj Thackeray is responsible for the youth’s death and the state govt. or Sarkar is supporting MNS and Mr. Raj Thackeray. But the simple question is that what do you expect the police to do with a guy holding innocent people on gunpoint. Of course this is a usual thing in states like Bihar, where guys easily get guns to kill their rivals without any police enquiry. And the strange thing is that the leaders from the same states are talking about law and order in Maharshtra. No wonder that the Sarkar is supporting Mr. Raj Thackeray making him Sarkar Raj Thackeray. And looking at the support to Mr. Raj Thackeray by Marathi people, one never knows when this MNS chief starts running the sarkar of Maharashtra.