Shiv Sena who….? And how come they have become the deciding authority in Mumbai. From when….? Does it mean now we have to go to a senile old fellow to ask permission for visiting Mumbai…Did we know that they were voted out of Maharastra long time back. Is it again the beginning of the underworld or …criminal rule in ‘Mumbai’.
It is the complete crumbling of the law and order in our great ‘financial capital of the country’. The Congress government should step down, as they are not able to handle a handful of ‘gunda’ element in Mumbai. How come in televised threat so called activists of the Shiv sena, threaten people …or Shahrukh Khan from entering Mumbai. Where is the state administration or it is sheer the ‘anarchy and criminal rule in Mumbai’now.
The state government has made just false assurances and promises to provide security to common people. Had it been so, the entire Bollywood so used to facing threats in the eighties and nineties from the underworld and bowing to pressures, would not have felt the heat once again. Why does Amitabh Bachhan apologetic to the Raj Thakeray, for his wife Jaya bachhan’s love for Hindi. It is the same language that has earned him crores in business. Be it business or no business, it is’nt it sheer disrespect to the ‘national language’. Rather it infringes the right of ones choice to speak and how does it really matter if ‘Thakerays are hurt’ as Mr Bachhan had said being apologetic and owing his allegiance to Mumbai and the Thakerays. Isnt it ironical, that hurting ‘Thakerays’ matter more than disrespecting the constitution.
Karan Johar had to go and be apologetic for calling Mumbai as Bombay in his film Wake up Sid’. A Ram Gopal Verma had to do a special screening for the ‘Balasaheb’ of his film ‘Sarkar’, and get his approval.
The Thakerays, who are now roaring as lions as they self proclaim (we better want human beings than lions to rule Mumbai) now on the move of destroying and destructing for not being saluted properly. And the recent victim is Shahrukh Khan. Surprisingly Shahrukh is conciliatory, though putting up a defiant front, wanting to know his mistake and antagonizing the ‘law breakers’. But on the other hand why should he not. He has children, home and business in Mumbai. And there is no law to safeguard him. His stakes are really high.
The question here is why should a Shahrukh speak the language that acceptable to the ‘Thakerays’. The answer is if he wont, his films will be not be screened in Mumbai, fans willing to see his films would be beaten up , and cinema halls screening his films would be ransacked. The fear psychosis was the only reason for Amitabh Bachhan and Karan Johar to reconcile with the ‘law breakers’ and get going. Since ‘common man’ is unsure of the efficiency of the state administration and protection by law hence they adapt the conciliatory tone.
The question here is not endorsing what Shahrukh said. It is whether he has the right to speech and expression or not. And how come Mumbai sleeps in silence when the rest of the country argues for the rights of common Indian.
The same is the case of North Indians being targeted in Mumbai. They question is not whether they should go to Mumbai for employment or not but whether they have the right to go to Mumbai or not. And if they have the right then what action is being taken against people indulging otherwise through criminal activities.
Where is the government and where is the Indian home minister? It is not about pacifying the lawbreakers, it is about taking them to task. And if the Indian law is same for everybody, Mumbaikars wake up for your right and join hands against the fight for democracy lest the disease of ‘lawlessness would just spread’ from ‘Mumbai’ to other parts of the country.
