By TwoCircles.net staff reporter,
Mumbai: The National Human Rights Commission has asked a report on the inflammatory anti-North Indian speeches by Raj Thackeray, chief of Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena.
The rights panel has issued a notification to the government of Maharashtra in connection with his speech delivered on 25th May 2008 in Pune.
Raj Thackeray, the nephew of Bal Thackeray, was earlier with the Shiv Sena. But when Bal Thackeray preferred his son Udhav Thackeray to his more active nephew Raj Thackeray, the former formed his own party as Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena.
Both Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Nav Nirman Sena seek to encash and exploit the feelings of regional jingoism.
Raj Thackeray came to light when he started campaigns of hatred against north Indians in the state.
It was the section of poor innocents and downtrodden labors from North India and not the North Indians who constitute the privileged middle class of Mumbai, which bore the brunt of these violent campaigns of hatred.
Following Raj Thackeray’s speech in Pune, the president of Uttar Bharatiya Maha Sangh, Yogesh Dubey filed a complaint against him with the commission on 29th May 2008. In his speech, Raj Thackeray targeted the North Indian students in Maharashtra.
In the speech he had said that these people come in Maharashtra in large numbers, and deprive the local students of their due educational rights. They are given admissions in educational institutes here just because they give huge sum of money in donation.
Dubey has requested the commission to file an FIR against Raj Thackeray.