ShivSena has done what is does best..rabble rousing. In a frantic move to steal thunder away from MNS, Uddhav has gone a 180 degree shift. Though initially started with speeches on development politics, soon shifted gears after biting dust in the loksabha and assembly polls. SRK had just expressed an opinion that in IPL, we should have "bought" Pakistani players, a notion that even the home minister of the land share, and so do millions of Indians. That was it...just expressed a "view" and Sena went on a rampage. God knows what would have happened if Knight Riders had actually taken any Pak player!! No right thinking India can deny that it was not cricket that we called them and then didnot take them. If we had plans of not taking them anyways, we better had not called them. What happened was indecency!! The winner of T20 world cup didnot expect this. But this sane argument aside, even if for arument sake we assume that whatever SRK said was wrong, does it give the Sena the right to take resort to this abominable brand of politics? Who gave them the ownership? Certainly not the people of Maharashtra. Sena had been rejected by the Marathi manoos in the polls. They should be gracious enough to accept the people's verdict. But thats expecting too much from this pro-fascist party. Despite being a disposable, dispensable and rejected political force in Maharashtra, the T factory doesnot get it. I also get irritated when the pictoral of tiger is associated with this dark force. They should best be compared with jackals. An aging patriarch of this anti-national party, who couldnot hold his family together speaks as a self proclaimed guardian of Marathi pride. He, his family and party are the greatest blots in Marathi history. He has taken a vow not to shave until his party comes back to power. With this brand, it never can and he has to die with the length of his beard touching his toes.
This issue is not about a SRK movie. I am not the greatest fan of SRK on earth. But that hardly matters. Even if it was a Rakhi Sawant movie, I would have been equally anguished and irate. This issue questions the very idea of India - her multi-linguistic thread, multi-cultural assets and the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression that is given to every citizen by the Constitution of the country. It does not allow a space for spitting venom as the Sena does.
The bigger question involves the government of Maharashtra. Though the Chief Minister, voiced warnings and platitudes alike, it didnot comfort the general public. It seems, unfortunately, the people have greater faith in the competency of ShivSena to create problems than on the administrative power of the government to crush the disturbances. Clearly a lack of political will on the part of the government. If a government wants, it can deal with such matters sternly. If the government cannot crush intra-state vandals, lumpens and goons then how can it be trusted to counter anti-socials, mafias or terrorists?
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