Are we Indians in India?

This is the most prominent question to be answered in a situation where nasty politics is being played in India.You have not remained an Indian in India. Either you are a North Indian or a South Indian. Or unless you come from Maharashtra where you aren’t sure whether you are a North Indian or a South Indian or a slice of both.

Raj Thackeray of MNS(Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) recently created rages in public and media by discriminating the North Indians staying in Maharashtra. Actually this was the same tactics(nasty politics) used by Bal Thackeray of Shiv Sena in the sixties to gain hold over the people of Maharashtra. The only difference being , he discriminated the South Indians staying in Maharashtra, accusing them as the reason for the lack of job oppurtunities for the Maharashtrians. Thus he could gain hold over the public by his divisive politics. While the crude parochialism of the Shiv Sena and MNS is known, what is lamented is that even all-India parties like Congress have not done anything to suppress the feeling of sub-nationalism. Even in the sixties, the Congress party was a mute spectator to the vandalism shown by Shiv Sena. In such a crunch situation of hue & cry, why is Vilasrao Deshmukh easing himself when his grip over the situation is loosening. Why is being unqualified support given to the police by R.R Patil(state’s home minister), which led to the lynching of a labourer from U.P & earlier shooting of a Bihari youth in Mumbai. This comes as a shocking deterioration in Mumbai’s law & order situation. These situations could be tackled in a better way without actually killing the Bihari youth, as he was just a distracted youth. If this could be seen as a reply to those whoever taking law in their hands, then such replies should be first meted out with Raj Thackeray’s goondas. Taking a real time analysis, the police & the anti social elements have brought disgrace to the city(tinsel town)which was once known for its cosmopolitan  culture and the fault lies with the nasty politicians who do not mind playing games with the lives of innocent people in their actual quest for raw bloody power.

So what is all this going on in a sixty year old secular & democratic country ?. What has actually happened to our people, to us- who have actually taken arms against our own people on the dictations of myopic politicians ?. So when did creepy terms like ‘sub nationalism’ began cropping in our nation ?. Such a shameless act has propped up the question ” are we Indians in India ? “. So this is time to to sit & think with a cool head- against whom we have taken arms & on who’s advice and then to act. B’coz these shameless acts happen & leave a scar on India & the losers are not our god mans- ‘the politicians’, but the hapless victims of the resultant violence.

Let us hope the movies like”Deshdrohi” where the hero(from Bihar) actually opposes the dictations of MNS- fiss out the tension in Maharashtra.

SREEJITH

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