Is this what our freedom fighters sacrificed their lives for? So that we can fight amongst ourselves? It is pathetic and disturbing to see and hear of the things that are happening in Mumbai. The concept of “Mumbai for the Mumbaikar’s” coined by the Shiv Sena and the MNS is unfathomable. For nearly 200 years great men fought selflessly and many lives were sacrificed to kick the Britisher’s out, so that we can have Our India for Ourselves. Now the same thing is happening again, but this time its for Mumbai (A similar thing is happening down south in AP for Telangana), the difference being the fact that the people are not fighting selflessly for a common cause, but are fighting with a selfish motive and worse, they are fighting with people of the same country. If only people like Gandhiji or any freedom fighter who were in the thick of the freedom struggle were alive today, they would beat their chests and wail unconsolably looking at the current status of the country they loved and deemed worthy enough to lay their lives for.
Poor people mostly from the north had migrated to Mumbai looking for greener pastures. They have taken the risk and have settled down there. Now they are fleeing to their own states fearing loss of life. This is deeply regrettable. According to the Indian constitution, any Indian citizen has the right to move to any part of the country and set up business and earn a livelihood (This is what we learn in Civics at our schools). This is the basic human right which all these migrants are practicing. One of the many issues that people of Mumbai are raising is the fact that when it concerns jobs, the north Indians are given priority over the people of Mumbai. This is so idiotic. If the north Indians are given priority, its just because they are more hardworking and they have earned it. 
The news of the death of a person from Nashik and the visuals shown on TV of the people of Mumbai pulling taxi drivers out of their cars and hitting them and destroying their taxi’s and the recent incident of a woman giving birth in the bathroom of the train she boarded to head back home are heart wrenching and inhuman to say the least.
These are the days of “India Shining” and India is all set to become the next world power. Indian economy is growing at an amazing pace and the entire world is looking east towards India as the country of opportunities. Many foreign companies are setting up their plants here and are planning to tap the Indian market. India has the greatest potential and resources in terms of man power. Even Mr. Barak Obama, the democrat contender for the US presidential elections said in a recent speech that he would want to improve the education system in the US so that they can produce students who can be on par with students from India and the China. This is something we should be extremely proud of.
It is said that “United we stand and divided we fall”. People need to get the real meaning of this maxim into their heads. What do people wish to accomplish by wanting separate states and kicking away people from other states? What political mileage do they wish to gain? What good is it going to do for people, and to India as a whole? If India prospers as a united country, who are the ones who will benefit from it? These are the questions which all these rabble rousers like Raj Thackeray, KCR and other miscreants who are against unity, that they need to ask themselves before doing anything . The only solution to this seems to be putting all these trouble makers behind bars, but whats the point, they come out on bail within a few hours giving as surety amounts which are paltry compared to what they make.
For all you know these so called rulers have numerous cases,sometimes even 
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