The Young India

Kartikey Sehgal
Background.

[Mumbai is the capital of Maharashtra and the financial capital of India. In the 21^ST century, 50% (or more) of Mumbai's population lives on streets. Politics is very competitive. Currently, politicians are dividing people on linguistic lines for the sake of votes.

The hard-working Mumbai resident must do anything else but fall for political games, but he is frustrated with pathetic working conditions, filth, corruption and is ready to believe that his misery is the result of outsiders; people who come to live and work in Mumbai.

This story, however, concentrates on political games in Maharashtra.]

Kartikey Sehgal
Journalists from Hindi and Marathi newspapers remarked that Raj Thackeray would be a good change for politics in Maharashtra. According to them, Raj never had problems with youngsters canoodling in beaches and parks. He planned to send his party men to the streets on February 14 to ensure safety for couples in love. He had also decided to protect shops selling Valentine cards and other ‘love’ merchandise irrespective of the owner’s religion or language. Raj wanted Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to serve as an antidote to the partisan politics of Shiv Sena and thereby muster support of the people.

Kartikey Sehgal gives a step-by-step explanation to the ongoing situation in the state of J&K over the land transfer issue.

People from Jammu and Kashmir are being fooled. Not to mention countless people in India who are easily misled by passions and emotions.We meet people who think that Kashmiri’s are being selfish and not giving the land for the Amarnath pilgrimage, and then there are those who think that Jammu citizens are being selfish in taking land from Kashmir when they can do without it.

Nobody is being selfish, except the politicians, of course.

This is what I know. Hindus in Jammu and Muslims in Kashmir are protesting against the government. And people in Kashmir are asking for independence.

No. Not everyone in Kashmir is asking for freedom. It’s only a faction that supports secession of Kashmir from India.

Then what are people from Jammu and Kashmir fighting over?