SHIV SENA chief Bal Thackeray has again made his way into the news. And obviously it is not the first time he is there. His divisive politics has a long history.
He claims himself to be a true well wisher of India, especially Maharashtra and its citizens. He considers himself to be the king of Maharashtra and feels that Marathis are superior to everyone else.
He is also highly anti-Muslim. He once made a statement that Muslims in India are like a fast growing cancer and should be treated like as such. Not only Muslims, he has a problem with Biharis too and calls them a ‘beemari’. When Sachin Tendulkar, the pride of India calls himself a proud Indian first and then a proud Maharashtrian, Thackeray has a problem there also. Karan Johar calls Mumbai as Bombay and he is made to apologize to Thackeray so that his movie is allowed to be screened in Maharashtra.
Now-a-days he is after Shahrukh Khan, who said that Pak players should have been picked up at the IPL auction. He won’t allow Khan to promote his movie ‘My name is Khan’ in Maharashtra. Why does Thackeray forget that we live in a democracy and have the right to free speech and expression? More important, why is allowed to forget?
This attitude of Thackeray’s has been tolerated long enough and its time that people and the government together teach him a lesson. He cannot discriminate against people on the basis of the state to which they belong and call them a ‘beemari’. He should understand that we are one nation, India. He is playing dirty politics and should definitely be punished so that he gets a lesson to learn and others too get to learn something from this. Everyone should understand that we are one nation and should think and work for the welfare of our country first and then for our respective states.
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