Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Raj Thackeray seeks a chance on Feb 2 ‘with clean slate’
Large crowds with “new voters”, women in more numbers than he’s ever seen at political rallies and the mood for change.
From crumbling healthcare facilities to Mumbai’s only zoo, he came down strongly on the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party combine for having denied the common Mumbaiite access to world-class facilities, despite 10 years in power. “Mumbai has an identity and tradition of its own, and that needs to be rejuvenated."
Seeking scientific town planning, he said the worst pockets in terms of civic neglect could be turned around “in six months”, pointing to the experience of Nashik — he was involved with the Shiv Sena’s efforts to redevelop the area around the Godavari— and the fact that there’s no planning committee for a city with global aspirations.
According the poll in the 227 seat BMC, the Shiv Sena-BJP could get 95-120 seats, down from nearly 140 they won last time. The Congress could get 65-85 seats, while, the NCP is projected to get 15-25 seats. The gainer is Raj Thackeray's new party, the MNS, which could get 10-20 seats and other parties will get the remaining seats.
Almost 70 per cent of those polled say Bal Thackeray is still a force to reckon with in Mumbai. Thackeray said “Now the President [Kalam] cannot see what is happening. His long hair has come before his eyes. He cannot see what is happening before him." This is the first time in the history of the country that such harsh and humiliating words have been used for a President, and that too in public domain, but Thackeray did not stop at that. Though, he has never been subtle about his dislike for UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on previous occasions the language was always constrained. However, this time it was a no-holds-barred salvo on Sonia. “This country is being ruled by foreigners. The Congress leaders and workers are all impotent,” Thackeray said.
"The city will burn if it is taken away from Maharashtra," Thackeray said. "Let them even try to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra and we will give them a fitting reply. One hundred and five martyrs, mostly mill workers, had sacrificed their lives for the cause of Maharashtra with Mumbai and we will not let it go to waste."
IMO: They are doing politics in a big way in Mumbai at the moment. Even TV political ads are very dear at local cost levels. I can only hope things will improve.
From crumbling healthcare facilities to Mumbai’s only zoo, he came down strongly on the Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party combine for having denied the common Mumbaiite access to world-class facilities, despite 10 years in power. “Mumbai has an identity and tradition of its own, and that needs to be rejuvenated."
Seeking scientific town planning, he said the worst pockets in terms of civic neglect could be turned around “in six months”, pointing to the experience of Nashik — he was involved with the Shiv Sena’s efforts to redevelop the area around the Godavari— and the fact that there’s no planning committee for a city with global aspirations.
According the poll in the 227 seat BMC, the Shiv Sena-BJP could get 95-120 seats, down from nearly 140 they won last time. The Congress could get 65-85 seats, while, the NCP is projected to get 15-25 seats. The gainer is Raj Thackeray's new party, the MNS, which could get 10-20 seats and other parties will get the remaining seats.
Almost 70 per cent of those polled say Bal Thackeray is still a force to reckon with in Mumbai. Thackeray said “Now the President [Kalam] cannot see what is happening. His long hair has come before his eyes. He cannot see what is happening before him." This is the first time in the history of the country that such harsh and humiliating words have been used for a President, and that too in public domain, but Thackeray did not stop at that. Though, he has never been subtle about his dislike for UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, on previous occasions the language was always constrained. However, this time it was a no-holds-barred salvo on Sonia. “This country is being ruled by foreigners. The Congress leaders and workers are all impotent,” Thackeray said.
"The city will burn if it is taken away from Maharashtra," Thackeray said. "Let them even try to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra and we will give them a fitting reply. One hundred and five martyrs, mostly mill workers, had sacrificed their lives for the cause of Maharashtra with Mumbai and we will not let it go to waste."
IMO: They are doing politics in a big way in Mumbai at the moment. Even TV political ads are very dear at local cost levels. I can only hope things will improve.
# posted by uv : 8:03 PM
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