Raj Thackeray – A Migraine

Mayawati flays Raj Thackeray for remarks on migrants reported IANS, yesterday (15-7-2011) on the Yahoo Home page. Raj Thackeray had reportedly said that the incidence of crime had increased with the increase of migrant population in Mumbai.

Mayawati did well to pull up the young and powerful politician from Maharashtra. After all , if Raj Thackeray was referring to the 13/7 terrorist blasts, he couldn’t possibly have called the attack just crime, nor could he have called migrants criminals. All migrants aren’t mohajirs with a chip on their shoulder, right? The kind that Naseeruddin Shah played in Sarfarosh… Raj Thackeray certainly must be well-informed about Mumbai cinema, if not the history of India and Pakistan, he being too young to have anything to do with the Freedom Movement. Raj sahib will learn as he grows older like his illustrious Elder named Bal ( curiously it means child, and a strand of hair with all the connotations one can derive from the expression!). Meanwhile he will bawl out after a safe period of silence, once it is reasonably certain that the attackers have left the scene duly satisfied with their handiwork. So Mayawatiji must sternly pull up the Bal Thackeray to teach him lessons he needs to establish and expand his Raj.

At the same time Raj sahib must be complimented for giving Mayawati a migraine The usually unflappable Boss of UP, unperturbed by events like doctors being murdered in jail and sundry rape-cases ( all too common, come on media, give us something New), was sufficiently disturbed by the young Thackeray to make a public response. Manmohan ji, of course, did not respond to Thackeray because he had PR business there on 14^th and it wouldn’t be a nice PR exercise to tick off the messiah who is seriously looking at Navnirmaan. Besides Manmohanji’s experience with head-aches is by far the greater than the UP CM’s experience. One more migraine could wait its turn, probably anytime from August 1, 2011 when the Parliament session begins.

Think of it... If Raj Thackeray and Mayawati are good advertisement for Aspirin and Migranil, Manmohan Singh can drive the formulation industry into bankruptcy