Kudos Raj Thackeray!

Talking about MNS and Raj Thackeray, they really have been able to achieve success in very short period of time. Their efforts of trying to create a divide and give rise to tensions between Marathi and UP-Bihari community really seems to be paying off.

I just want to recollect a couple of incident that happened a few days back. I was travelling in a Mumbai Local Train from Andheri to Kandivili. A Marathi while boarding the train at Andheri got a little nudge from a UP-Bihari guy. It was nothing really, anyone who has travelled in the crushing Mumbai local trains know that you will inevitably get pushed around. Anyways, the Marathi guy reacted angrily and used a racial slur saying bhaiya hai kya gan**. Well, the guy who nudged the Marathi was a bihari/bhaiya and he had at least five more bihairis with him. Obviously, they didn’t take the slur too nicely and came up with “bihari” poetry – ma******, behen****, etc, etc. The Marathi then threatened to hit them. To which all the biharis rounded the Marathi and challenged him to hit them – maar na, maar na. The saga continued till the next station where the biharis forcefully pushed the Marathi out of the train.

Another more recent incident involved a bus driver and an auto-rickshaw driver. A UP-Bihari auto driver was hurled by a huge repertoire of Marathi abuse at a traffic signal by a Marathi bus driver. The auto drivers fault was that he had overtaken the bus and came and parked his auto in front of the bus at the traffic signal.

Hats off to Raj Thackeray, for he has achieved something that the Indian economy has not been able to achieve in 60 years – reaching out to the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Makes you wonder, only if these influential politicians guide their efforts in the right direction.