Shiv Sena under the microscope
Earlier this month we witnessed terrible ethnic violence in Mumbai city, where a Marathi supremacist group attacked poor North Indian migrants to the city. Those responsible for the attacks were cadre of the “Marathi Navnirman Sena”, a breakaway group from the infamous “Shiv Sena”.
The Shiv Sena is a political party that all Indian citizens will of course will be familiar with. Hindus in other countries such as here in Britain will have certainly heard of it, but probably have a mistaken view of the organisation.
March 7th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
In a world where the ‘right thing’ is never done we atleast have a Hindu group worthy of mention, and although some Hindus do percieve Shiv Sena as inactive…they can still russle up a good riot when needed, my concern is that now split with his nephew heading a smaller faction have they lost their strength in numbers? it would be interesting to know why exactly they did refrain from violence when muslims bombed Bombay when at a time like that they could have used thew anti muslim sentiment to their advantage.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:00 am
“it would be interesting to know why exactly they did refrain from violence when muslims bombed Bombay”
Because they are a bunch of typical Indian-Hindu wimps who give it the large to other Hindus but are meek in front of muslims and christians.
This explains why they are targeting North Indian Hindu migrants but don’t dare to do anything about muslim ghettos like Mahim in Mumbai where the locals blatantly display the Pakistani flag, where you can get hold of anything at a cheap price and where I’m sure there are terrorists hiding in plain sight.
March 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Forget about Muslim ghettos, they don’t even have the balls to legally deport those tons of Bangladeshi illegals in Mumbai (just because they happen to be Muslims), but to be fair these recent attacks are the handiwork of Raj Thackeray’s breakaway party more than Shiv Sena, i guess he is trying to push out Sena & Bal Thackeray to establish himself through these antics.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Who is Raj Thackeray and MNS? Recent Mumbai episode against migrant Hindus of Bihar and UP (correctly to say, and not north Indian overall) is the handi-work of Congress. Raj was the mask, he was used by the Congress (also by NCP of Sarad Pawar) to destroy Bal Thakerey Shiv Sena. Congress is in a bad situation in Maharastra, and there is every chance Shiv Sena-BJP can come to power in next assembly election.
So, Raj was created by the Congress as Bhindranwale (Pubjab militant) of Maharastra or ULFA (a militant group of Asom or Assam) of Maharastra. Bhindranwale was created by Indira gandhi to destroy Akalis and ULFA was created by the Congress CM (Hiteswar Saikia) to destroy AGP (Asom’s regional party). Else, why Congress-NCP govt did nothing against Raj? You got the answer, right?
Howsoever hardline or whatever bad (as the author of the article wrote)Shiv Sena as a party, still it is an open Hindu Voice. Without Shiv Sena, Mumbai would have converted into a Dacca or Islamabad by the Congress. Regional supremacy is the hall-mark of every regional party, DMK or AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, AGP in Asom, TDP in Andhra Pradesh etc. Shiv Sena is no exception. At least these regional parties made Congress supremacy (aptly Nehru clan supremacy) decline from the landscape of Bharat.
Regionalism is not contradictory to nationalism. They are symbiotically linked. Regions made-up the nation, a nation is not without regions. Regional aspirations must be fullfilled for an effective nation state.
Bharat
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May 2nd, 2008 at 10:40 am
What is wrong with British National Front and British National Party if there is nothing wrong with the Siva Sena????