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MNS Demands 80% Jobs to Maharashtrians

So I log in to Timesofindia.com one weekday morning and find what, MNS demands that 80% of jobs in Maharashtra be allotted to Maharashtrians. This or something very similar to what you just read. Is MNS just crossing all the lines of sensibility and moving rapidly towards jingoism? Think about it. After repeatedly targetting Amitabh Bachchan (again) and offending all the Non-Maharashtrians (and majority of Maharashtrians), Raj Thackarey has the guts to demand 80% of jobs to Maharashtrians. This came at a time when there was a report floating that a majority of new households and building properties in Mumbai be given to Maharashtrians. Shiv Sena demanded this I guess (unconfirmed).

So what will be their next demand.
  • All schools should have 80% Maharashtrian children and all classes should be in marathi.
  • Only marathi movies should be screened in Maharashtra theaters.
  • All non-marathi actors should have a last name with either Joshi or Kulkarni attached to them. Shahrukh Kulkarni, Aamir Joshi, Hrithik Nadkarni, Shreyas Talpade, Nana Patekar. Oh wait, Shreyas Talpade and Nana Patekar are genuine marathi names.
  • Mumbai and Maharashtra Ranji Trophy teams should have 80% marathi players.
  • Mukesh Ambani's IPL team, Mumbai Indians, should be changed to Mumbai Mumbaikars. The original and proposed names both suck.
  • 80% of all shops and businesses should have names beginning with "Chhatrapati Shivaji". This has already been started with the names of Victoria Terminus and Bombay International Airport being changed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport. Shivaji Maharaj himself might be thinking, Why God Why?

All Maharashtra residents, including myself, are extremely proud of our state and city. We live in great harmony with Maharashtrians and few of my closest and best friends are Maharashtrians. Why don't these politicians learn to unite the nation and set a great example. Rather, they are going back to the era of the British empire and using the policy of Divide and Rule.

We repeatedly talk amongst ourselves saying to one another that the common man knows everything and an educated person will not pay any attention to any of the nonsense that MNS started. But still there are lakhs and lakhs of uneducated youth and middle-aged people who get sucked into the games of the mindless and power-hungry politicial parties like MNS and create havoc in Mumbai and other cities. There is a greater power who is just watching and doing nothing about it just yet. Lets hope common sense prevails with the uncommon and Maharashtra doesn't bleed anymore.

Comments

lee said…
Rajesh this is my favourite topic as you know it so I cannot resist myself in adding to what you just mentioned. Few more things that MNS (and shiv sena) can demand in near future:
1.) No more Jeans and Tops for girls in college’s only Navwari saris......How funny will that look?
2.) All pubs and discos will only play Lavnis (tamasha songs....tin tin tin tin...). Its gonna suck if that happens.
3.) and the list goes on n on.........

But there are few things which these politicians (Raj and Bal, dono c******) will find difficult to digest when Ratan Tata announces that the Nano car will be sold for 2 lakh and not 1 lakh for all Marathi’s……he he he …

Above all you look decent without your Verappan style mustache.

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