Shiv Sena is a Hindu right-wing party founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, then a political cartoonist, in Maharashtra. The party fought for the rights of the Marathis in the face of a wave of immigration from Kerala and other southern states in the 1960s. But from pro-Maratha, it soon took on the image of being a pro-Hindu party, and has faced charges of inciting hate and participating in the violence, leading up to the Bombay riots of 1992-1993.
In alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Shiv Sena came to power in Maharashtra in 1995. The alliance remained till 2019, except for a brief breakup in 2014. It was in 2019, that the Shiv Sena, now under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray, decided to break with the BJP, and joined hands with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) — parties ideologically opposed to it. This led to a split in 2022, when another Shiv Sena emerged under Eknath Shinde.
Rebellion, though, is not new to the party. The Sena split in 1991 when senior leader Chhagan Bhujbal quit along with many MLAs and workers. Then, in 2005, Narayan Rane quit and took several lawmakers along with him. Uddhav Thackeray’s cousin, Raj, left the party along with several lawmakers and workers in 2006.
I saw at close quarters when I was sent to Bombay as part of team of army doctors with army columns. Sadly not only police even army officers failed as us upright officers.Theirconduct was shameful
My immediate superior upbraided me for giving sympathetic hearing to victims of violence in medical camps.All of them Muslims
As one day we waited for lunch,one officer just relieved from watch at duty room ,boasted that he had rebuked the most famous bolly wood couple ,SairaBanu and Dilip Kumar when the rang up anxious for their safety
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Teesta, why cant you speak for Pandits in Kashmir.Musslims killed pandits and have flee leaving behind their land.If you speak for Pandits, your trust wont get funds from Pak and Middleeast.We all know how neutral you are.
Sharad Pawar was Chief Minister not Denfence Minister at that time.
Setalvad is right – even if the film is only about the whitewashing of Dutt – the point is that writers who comment on it and criticize its inability to deal with
the reality of the times can also be criticized for not wanting to look at the complex set of events that led to the blast. The idea is not to justify the blasts but to point out that journalists who are supposed to know better remain selective in their recall so as to remain on the right side of the powers that be. That is the ugly truth about Shekhar Gupta
What level of hypocricy bt Teesta? No mention of the cruelty and violence by the Muslims!
Treats ,pl do also write something for JK minorities,come out of Gujarat ,Mumbai riots ,write forMass exodus of Hindu minorities .U won’t u and ur coterie is not concerned for Hindu ,Sikh minorities of JK
There is no excuse for becoming a terrorist. Picking a bomb or a gun is no answer to any problem. The men and women who pick up bombs or automatic / semi-automatic guns are TERRORISTS. No other word can be used to describe such anti-social persons. Plain and very simple.
Kudos to Teesta for exposing the hypocrisy of the likes of S.Gupta
Without getting into the now past its sell by date debate of whether Sanjay Dutt was a saint or a sinner, I recall vividly those days between the demolition of the Babri Masjid and the bomb blasts in Bombay. A very ugly time, the Muslims got the worst of it, the police were biased, we had never seen our city become so ugly and riven by communal strife. CM Sudhakarrao Naik was completely out of his depth. Sadly, no one has had the honesty to act on the Justice Srikrishna report …
Shekhar Gupta was not commenting on the Bombay riots. He was commenting on the white washing of Sanjay Duty, an imprisoned criminal. Teesta Setalvad’s strawman argument with a plethora of adjectives will not win her the debate. Finally, a criminal act is a criminal act, irrespective the provocation.