Chnadrayan may have to return due to protest from Moon Navnirman Sena .
Ajay
it is frightening to see innocent and thinking people falling prey to the worst
kind of chauvinism and incendiary politics. raj thakeray's periodic tirades
have absolutely nothing to do with the unemployed marathi youth. had he cared
for them, he and the political outfit that fathered him - the shiv sena - would
have fought for the textile iworkers and tried to protect if not their jobs at
least their rights to live in mumbai. but they did exactly the opposite. they
were complicit in the mill-closures, in the sale (and purchase by themselves)
of mill land and the removal of the mill workers from the chawls of central
mumbai - the very habitat that spawned the shiv sena in the first place.
most of the jobs in mumbai in the organised sector have no presence of u.p. and
bihar migrants. they are to be found in the unorganised and very ill-paid
sector. state govt. jobs and even public and private sector jobs have a very
large marathi presence. as far as ceos and mds and fat-cats are concerned,
yes, there are many non-maharashtrians but they have never been targetted by
raj and his ilk.
marathi youth is angry and frustrated. and the agricultural sector is in such
crisis that there is a huge flow of rural poor to mumbai from the rest of the
state. but the upwalas and biharis are not responsible for either the anger or
the frustration or the crisis. they are just an easy target so that those
responsible are let off the hook.
as far as the railways are concerned - the recruitment is done all over india
on a zonal basis. the mumbai-based tests are not only for jobs in the railways
in maharashtra but for the entire zone. if one visits railway establishments
in maharashtra and mumbai one will fine that maharashtrians are
well-represented as they should be. those coming from other states who qualify
are usually sent to hindi-speaking areas. popular prejudice against lalu
cannot be used to justify raj thackeray's diabolical politics.
it would be so much more useful to talk to young, unemployed people - they do
not really want the 'jobs' that migrants do but they do vent their rage on
them. paradox? yes, but one that needs unravelling not justification
subhashini ali
