Politics of Language part 5

Both thakceray and azmi are builders. The bihari's huts occupy a large amount of land that are a gold mine for the builders. Forced evacuations are not possible, hence azmi as well as thackeray are making such a scary drama taking things to the other extreme, so that the bihari's flee from these places, giving the builders access to these lands. Azmi and Thackeray both have to gain financially from this. It is possible that there is even an understanding between the two on this issue. Both are kaminey in this sense. As I said, it is the jobless marathi youth that are an easy target for inculcating violent repsonses, and these issues have to addressed mroe than, just looking at the picture at its face value.

The issue is unemployment but raj thackeray is diverting the anger towards other emotional issues. Take a look at germany for example. It was crushed during the second world war, hitler used the suffering of the german and the anger they felt and channelized it in to the hatred against the jewish community. The primary issue is not hatred towards non-marathi speaking people, because as you yourself have seen, raj thackeray does not go about bashing industrialists or gujarati buisness, in the guise that they are better assimiliated in a marathi culture.

Raj Thackeray would never go about attacking unemployment as he does not have the soultion to the problem, neither does he really seem to gain from it. Diverting the attention to emotinoal issues and picking out a community that cannot defend itself is tantamout towards diverting frustations of joblessness and other issues in getting and inculcating a sense of accomplishment among the unemployed frustated youth, because communiites that cannot defend themselves can always be manipulated physically to suit the desries of venting frunstation from real issues.

Also your issue about working hard rather than cribbin for something may sound like a good principle but in effect does not work as a partical principle. As I said, if it was the case of haryana too, if people from other parts of india came and took away jobs that the people of haryana wanted, then they would react violently too. Hence the founders of the country talked about founding of states on teh basis of linguage and common culture. This was just not done to enhance administrative procedures. Otherwise we would have had conglomeration of states speaking various languages making up a state. Formation of states on the basis of language has primarily to do with efficient and set distribution of resources. Domination of jobs in a state, by peole from other states, goes against this emotion shared by every state, and is far from being an exception but is the norm.

You can have individual disagreements on this issue, but the fact that this mentality is present in most states that make up india, shows the acceptance of such a mindset by the states that make up the country and hence india as a whole.

Also if you claim that the thinking talked about above goes against nationalistic emotions, then you are mistaken. A philosophy goes against nationalistic emotions if it goes against root emotions held by people of the majority of the states, this is not the case in what I have talked about above.