http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story...EWEN20080040136
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Raj Thackeray has done it again. After outraging Biharis by calling the Chhat festival a 'drama', he has hit out at superstar Amitabh Bachchan for not being loyal enough to Maharashtra.
''Amitabh Bachchan chose to contest elections from Uttar Pradesh instead of Mumbai. If a person of such stature who is revered in Mumbai can feel patriotic about his own state, can't Raj Thackeray feel the same?'' said Raj Thackeray, President, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
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Another instance of purely idiotic regional-pride. Has absolutely no element of cultural-pride (language-pride etc). Purely regional pseudo-patriotism which has become for Raj Thakeray even bigger than national/Hindutva-identity, that he has called Chhath festival a 'drama of Bihari-s'.
News items also showed his party targetting the programs of Manoj Tewari, the famous Bhojpuri Folk singer who was to perform in Mumbai. Morons do not know that Tewari's many songs have Shivaji as a hero, and many of his songs are very nationalistic.
Raj Thakeray has called for a ban on Bhojpuri films running in Maharashtra, some theatres in Mumbai and Nashik have already been attacked by his mobs.
Like Delhi, why should Mumbai also not be made a separate state?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Raj Thackeray has done it again. After outraging Biharis by calling the Chhat festival a 'drama', he has hit out at superstar Amitabh Bachchan for not being loyal enough to Maharashtra.
''Amitabh Bachchan chose to contest elections from Uttar Pradesh instead of Mumbai. If a person of such stature who is revered in Mumbai can feel patriotic about his own state, can't Raj Thackeray feel the same?'' said Raj Thackeray, President, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.
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Another instance of purely idiotic regional-pride. Has absolutely no element of cultural-pride (language-pride etc). Purely regional pseudo-patriotism which has become for Raj Thakeray even bigger than national/Hindutva-identity, that he has called Chhath festival a 'drama of Bihari-s'.
News items also showed his party targetting the programs of Manoj Tewari, the famous Bhojpuri Folk singer who was to perform in Mumbai. Morons do not know that Tewari's many songs have Shivaji as a hero, and many of his songs are very nationalistic.
Raj Thakeray has called for a ban on Bhojpuri films running in Maharashtra, some theatres in Mumbai and Nashik have already been attacked by his mobs.
Like Delhi, why should Mumbai also not be made a separate state?