Dear Founder
President, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Mumbai, Maharashtra
Seeing the recent unfortunate incidents of
violence and communal riots in Mumbai and your strong condemn of them,
especially the one occurred at Azad Maidan on August 11th, I am
enthused to appreciate your concerns for your very own “Marathi Manoos” and
towards your much ‘owned’ city Mumbai. But before I write any further, I would
like to introduce myself as an ordinary North Indian, who has spent almost 5
years in Mumbai, while pursuing my education and earning a livelihood. I must
say despite having spent a significant part of my youth here, I still feel like
an outsider, thanks to your consistent propagation of treating North Indians as
such. Now I think I can begin putting forth my thoughts.
1. I
congratulate you for your another successful attempt to cash on the unfortunate
incident of riots at Azad Maidan. You could not have timed your jibe better in
calling the migrants from Bihar, or as you would prefer to call them - ‘Biharis,’ as the fire starters of the
riots. Though all of us saw many videos of the incident on news channels and
video streaming sites and the people we saw looting police weapons and
molesting female constables definitely did not look like Biharis, I am sure you
as a great leader and wise politician could see more than what meets the eye.
2. You did a
righteous thing by threatening to declare these migrants as ‘infiltrators’. Of
course they are infiltrators; for they continue to dare to migrate to your
Mumbai in a pursuit of livelihood as rickshaw drivers, taxi drivers, hawkers
and other small jobs, which form a support system to many big businesses and
the day-to-day lives of Mumbaikars. They are silly for they assume they can
freely move to any state they want and fail to read the fine print of the
constitution, which you surely cannot allow to keep Mumbai a safe place. To
assume that all ‘Biharis’ are inherently criminal in nature is the safest thing
to do to protect a Big Metropolitan city like Mumbai from their menace.
3. It was a
strong countermove from you when the media started criticising your honest
comments. You dared to threaten the Hindi channels from running on television
networks in Maharashtra, should they try to ‘misquote’ you. Maharashtra
definitely does not need any sort of information, news or knowledge that has
‘Non-Marathi’ origins. It is a state that can run very efficiently without any
sources – whether they are human, knowledge or natural – being supplied from
outside its Geographical borders.
4. Your continued
efforts towards condemning our neighbor country and foiling any attempts by our
Governments, media or industries to improve the relations with them are also
worth-mentioning. Your party’s activists recent actions to criticise, and
vandalize the hoardings of a soon-to-start musical reality show because it will
also have Pakistani contestants are more than justified. After all, when you
would not allow people from different state of your own country to ‘infiltrate’
in your state, how can you do so to the people who belong to a country with
which we have a history of 65 years of severed relations!?
5. You are the
most selfless leader this beleaguered country can ever be led by! Knowing that
North Indian migrants hold the key to your party’s victory in at least more
than half of the 288 urban constituencies of the assembly constituencies in
Mumbai, Thane, Nashik, and Pune, you continue to pursue your anti North-Indian
propaganda. Another fact that can complement the earlier is that more than 30 percent
of the Mumbai population has migrated from North India, and more than 80
percent of the Mumbai population is ‘Non-Marathi’ – majority of the vote bank
and wealth creators for the city. You definitely are a true leader of your Maharashtrian Janata who has chosen
‘uplifting’ their state, over the good of his political career.
I wish I could go on and on, but the
limitation of my wisdom prevents me for writing further. I hope you would
continue to set an example of this great leadership and challenging the
decades-old constitution crafted by some myopic leaders, and to question the
absurd axiom known as ‘democracy’.
Sincerely,
-
An outsider
