Artitra echoes my thoughts. Many of you have been reading my posts regarding UT over the past days. I think it is important to make a point here: My support and admiration for Uddhav Thackeray and his governance does not mean I have any love lost for Shiv Sena. My views on that party and its workers continue to be as they were: that they are a communal party with a xenophobic agenda and a breeding ground for goonda elements that regularly and unapologetically uses threats and force to get what it wants, typically something that isn’t strictly legal. Uddhav is a gentleman and I have started to like him, despite his occasional references to Hindutva, which I can see, and understand, that he needs to do given his position. But his party is far from that of a gentleman. Nothing has changed on the ground. Until it does, my view remains that the man’s a good man, but his party is a club for bigoted, communal, divisive, and illiterate people whose only claim to fame is their muscles and the mob they come in. Thank you for listening.
P.S: I retain similar thoughts about Mohua and TMC, Omar and National Conference, and Rahul and INC. The only political parties I support are perhaps DMK and TRS, and sometimes (this is going to get the goat of many) AAP, but only from issue to issue. As I have confessed earlier, I am ideologically monogamous and politically promiscuous. ‘Nuff said.
