I don’t understand what is happening in Mumbai with this whole ‘anti-north indians’ movement. Raj Thackrey is making a claim that ‘North Indians’ are coming to Mumbai and taking over the jobs that would otherwise go to Maharashtrians. This argument is silly at several levels, but that’s not what I’m worried about.

What worries me is how his party-men are buying the argument! Why Maharashtrians vs North Indians? Why not Mumbaikars vs Non-Mumbai folk? Why not people from the Dadar area vs. people from South Mumbai? And, by reductio-ad-absurdum, why not people in my household vs other people.

It’s scary when ‘party followers’ take things at face value without even sparing a thought to what it all means. What makes these people feel some pride in an arbitrary political line dividing states I don’t understand.

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