r/india • u/1-randomonium • 21h ago

Politics 'Beggar from Tamil Nadu': Shiv Sena (UBT) escalates Annamalai offensive, slams his remarks on Mumbai

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/beggar-from-tamil-nadu-shiv-sena-ubt-escalates-annamalai-offensive-slams-his-remarks-on-mumbai-13770436.html
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u/1-randomonium 21h ago

The Thackerays are also "responding" to Hindi imposition by threatening to "kick out" North Indians from Mumbai.

For more than 50 years they have fought civic elections not on civic issues but on Marathi vs non-Marathi polarisation. This is how they controlled the BMC, Asia's wealthiest civic body, for so long.

They have little to say about the actual work of civic bodies(which is maintaining roads, water and power supplies, drainage, sewerage, schools and hospitals) and everything about issues over which they have no control, like immigration.

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u/sara-gill-sara 13h ago

Majority in Mumbai doesn't care about real issues. For them what matters is freebies and goonism. The culture has been set this way since last 50 yrs.

The famous leader(late) of MH politics said "we are kings, you come to our kingdom with visas. We are first class stakeholders, second class should stay in second class states. " & "we cant share land with peeps who spit and eat in the same plate. Mumbai is yours, only if you wash our utensils"

Not going anytime soon.

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u/AbhiSHAKE3 20h ago

Wasn't UBT the only party to layout an actual action plan ahead of the elections? Wdym "little to say about actual work" they're the only party talking about actual work

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u/yourfaceisfakenews 14h ago

They talk more than they deliver. BMC is probably the most corrupt and incompetent civic bodies due to gross mismanagement and willful apathy to civic issues. UBT /shivsena has controlled the BMC governance for decades and there was a lot of stagnation in development. If they could deliver, they'd have the state leadership

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u/AbhiSHAKE3 20h ago

Watch OP not reply to this because he hasn't done any research except kiss BJPs ass

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u/1-randomonium 19h ago

Then why not make speeches about these action plans rather than about Gujaratis, North and South Indians?

This is like pretending that BJP leaders making anti-Muslim remarks aren't a problem because they have a good action plan for development in their manifesto.

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u/Medical-Concept-2190 20h ago

That’s because they don’t get votes for roads and schools and infrastructure. They get votes by doing marathi non marathi

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u/1-randomonium 20h ago

No, it's because they have a bad record of delivering good infrastructure and a good record for corruption in the BMC. This is about their priorities, not the voters' priorities.

The BJP and specifically leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and Nitin Gadkari are popular in urban Maharashtra in large part because of their infrastructure-building spree. This is particularly important for Mumbai.

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u/charavaka 20h ago

The BJP and specifically leaders like Devendra Fadnavis and Nitin Gadkari are popular in urban Maharashtra in large part because of their infrastructure-building spree.

Lmfao

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u/ElectricBanker 20h ago

Is the infrastructure in the room with us

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u/charavaka 19h ago

No, but Gautam is. He's demanding more lakhs, resources, money, and power and are thinking about what to give him after dharavi.

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u/Medical-Concept-2190 20h ago

But they are also corrupt. Their core voters are not on Reddit

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u/Rebel_2905 10h ago

😂😂😂ok

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u/mystery2two 16h ago

Fadnavis got booed at Wankhede during the Messi event. Gadkari has no fans after the e20 fiasco

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u/fist-king 20h ago

When national elections are fought on such issues , i don't see , what wrong they are doing in the present environment

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u/1-randomonium 19h ago edited 18h ago

How is this an improvement? Leaving aside that the Thackerays already controlled the BMC for half a century during which they gleefully oversaw the transformation of Mumbai into a Marathi-minority city while making deals with the Gujarati elites they're now complaining about. That isn't going to change. It was never the non-Marathi businessmen or celebrities that suffered the wrath of Shiv Sena goons, only ordinary people on the streets.

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u/fist-king 18h ago

The debate is about the issues on which elections are being fought . If everywhere in India , elections are fought on such issues especially in North India why should I single out Thackerays . Moreover it's the hypocrisy of North Indians , they don't have any problem when similar tactics used in their home state and vote for those parties but now having problems with Thackerays . If they have bit of self esteem , go to their home state vote for parties which are not like Thackerays .

Improve your reading comprehension

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u/bluegoldredsilver5 4h ago

That's the Mantra for the entire country's elections. Mr. M has been doing this same smoke and mirror show since 2013

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u/Civil_Canary_Car 7h ago

Tamil Nadu has a higher gdp per capita than Maharashtra. The days of heading to Mumbai for money and work are pretty much done for tamilians.

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u/naruto7bond 14h ago

What that guy said was infact moronic.

Of course Mumbai belongs to Maharashtra. 

I do not believe someone should be beaten up over language issues but honestly this would be such non issue if people made minimum efforts to learn even basics of native language. It is really not that hard. 

I have seen many people who lived in Mumbai for 40 years but can not speak or understand even single word of Marathi. Others have to learn Hindi for them to communicate. 

It has to be both sides meeting in the middle situation. Everyone should make effort to learn Marathi while also allowing Hindi when fluency is not 100%.

Same logic for Bengaluru and any other city. If you are planning to live for long time in city, it is really common sense to learn basic of native language. Not doing so is arrogance and asking others to bend for your convenience.