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ASSEMBLY POLL '98
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'We, the citizens have had enough of the Shiv Sena'
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 22:40:01 -0600 Shameful, dastardly act. It is a shame that this happened. In the land of Tendulkar, Gavaskar, Shastri, Vengsarkar, Sandeep Patil and many many more greats, cricket was brought to shame. I must say asking Pakistan to play in India is questionable but this incident is not the answer to the issue. If the Sainiks have a problem why don't they go to Kashmir and fight for the country rather than rioting and threatening common people. They don't because they are cowards. These jobless and good for nothing people should be asked to pick up a gun and go to the Siachen glacier and show their might. Forget international matters, they can't even stop crime in Bombay. Why should the Indian cricketers play? To everybody his life is more precious than few more years of cricket. All people from Maharashtra are ashamed of the Shiv Sena. If they win elections it is because of fear and not respect. They are going to lose miserably.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:49:09 -0800 This incident is a terrible reflection of the fact that my great city, Bombay, has indeed gone to the dogs. I have a few observations from this incident.
1. It is unfortunate that the protectors of Hinduism and India need to make
lewd comments towards female typists, in order to get their views noticed.
SB
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:47:01 -0500 I really pity the ongoing activities by the Shiv Sainiks in India. I am the most ardent fan of the Indian cricket team. I feel it is an sports event and should proceed in a sportive way, rather than a terrorising way. I feel either these Sainiks do not want to see India losing to Pakistan, or it's just botched-up politics by their leader. If they really want to defeat Pakistan in any sense then let them play here. Make yourselves and your team and your policies so strong, that you are capable of defeating whoever comes your way, instead of terrorising the innocent people involved in the preparation of the match. Why don't these so-called Sainik's go to Kashmir and prove their 'Herculism' there. I don't think this is good in any sense on the part of Shiv Sainiks or their leader. Khan
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:52:28 -0700 Shouldn't it be "mobs ransack BCCI office," instead of Sena men?? Without knowing actual culprits, I think it is not correct to give such statements.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:41:02 -0800 The headline belies the news. The news article says it was not sure whether the activists were from Shiv Sena, why should the headline state it in bold words then? This kind of reporting is biased and can harm the credibility and seriousness with which readers take Rediff. Samir Ajgaonkar
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:23:35 -0600 Are Indians this illiterate? These hooligans will make irreversible damage to the image of our great nation. Strong actions should be taken by the authorities to punish these goondas of the Shiv Sena.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:38:03 -0600 I don' t know what is going on in Bal Thackeray's mind? If he considers himself a leader tell him to fight against corruption. Tell him to fight against gangsters. Tell him to go to the Indian border and fight. Why he is interrupting sports? If the state chief minister as president of the Cricket Association is afraid of Bal Thackeray, forget him. He need not to be president. Everybody needs to protest against this. The people of Bombay need to do that. I strongly protest against this. K C Inamdar
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:26:43 PST The Prudential Cup, Sharjah Cup and many other international cups have been smashed to pieces. The symbol of Indian victory and pride are no more. What we have now is shame. Shame on the Shiv Sena! And shame on the BJP that it still is a partner to the Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra. The most shocking is among other hooligans of Shiv Sena was a sitting MLA. The irony of the situation is Chief Minister Manohar Joshi, also the vice- president of the Indian Cricket Board, has been instrumental in provoking these attacks. He must be immediately expelled from office. At all Indo-Pak match venues security cameras must be installed. Shiv Sena goondas disrupting matches must be identified, arrested and severely punished for endangering life and property. Satya Narain
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:08:07 -0600 What would it take the government to come down heavily on the Shiv Sainiks and put those criminals behind bars is beyond my comprehension. MLAs and MPs of the Shiv Sena are coming out in open defiance and are perpetuating violence and destruction of public property -- and the government is sitting with folded hands and wants people to believe that this is all a "prank" and "an unnecessary show of bravado" by their coalition partner. Your columnists like Varsha Bhosle and T V R Shenoy can eulogise endlessly the BJP and how deviant are their perspective vis-à-vis their fanatical brothers-in-arms. But inaction on the government’s part to such criminal behaviour is tantamount to silent approval. This government has failed the aspirations of all and sundry in the country who (like me) believed them to be a resolute and credible alternative to the sycophants, illiterate villains, and cattle breeders who (mis)ruled us all those years before the BJP came to power. If the current government has even an iota of self respect in them, they should crack down on the Sena hooligans, strip the liable Shiv Sena MLAs and MPs of all public office, charge them with criminal misconduct and seek an indictment against Bal Thackeray for instigating arson and communal disharmony. If this would mean cancellation of the Pakistan cricket tour, so be it. At least it will send a message to all arsonists that they can't break the law of the land and get away from it under any pretext whatsoever. The future of this country is not so precariously hinged on a cricket series. Adherence of the law and order is more important to a civilised society and no price would be too high to pay for this. If the government doesn't have the guts to do this then they should accept the reality that they are riding a twister of their own making and resign immediately before the country is plunged deeper and deeper into lawlessness. Kiran Nair
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 07:35:38 -0800 Make the Shiv Sena pay for the emotional and property damages caused. Where was the police? Looks like the police and the Shiv Sena are in cahoots in all the previous and present controversies. It is time that the BJP bash the Sena in Bombay. We, the citizens have had enough of the Shiv Sena and the police in Bombay. Ask Admiral Bhagwat to take over Bombay and rule it for some time. The Westerners divided the Muslims and Hindus and we are still a victim of that mentality. Time to build goodwill with our Muslim neighbours, there is god in every person and devil in every person.
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:34:03 PST As an Indian I feel ashamed after reading the report about the attack on the BCCI office in Bombay by Shiv Sena goons (the so-called patriots). More so after I learnt that the most precious sports trophy ever won by India in any sport, was damaged. This incident and the threat issued by the state sports minister to the Indian cricketers clearly shows that the Sena leaders are acting out of desperation. It's only natural that leaders like Thackeray and his bunch of sidekicks cannot think of a more positive way to grab the national headlines. We should also appreciate the brave Pakistanis for accepting to tour under such threatening circumstances. For the information of the Pakistanis, the Shiv Sena is only a regional party and it does not have any strength outside Maharashtra. They do not even have a proper party office outside Maharashtra. So with the tight security arrangements being made by the local police authorities, it would be impossible for them to even think of disrupting any match. Good luck to Pakistan and India. We, the cricket lovers of India and Pakistan just cannot wait to see some tense battles between these two enterprising teams.
Srini Duggirala
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 9:14 AM I am aghast that after all the turmoil and upheaval Pakistan has created in India from Kashmir to Coimbatore and from Punjab to Bombay during the past ten years, maiming and killing our jawans in an unwarranted mayhem and forcing an exodus of the minority Hindu community from the Kashmir valley, we Indians are enthusiastic about their cricket team's tour of India. Yes, the self-styled secularists who seem to sprout like mushrooms in our country, of course not by virtue of any persuasion, would have us believe that politics and sports do not mix. They have it all wrong. Unless our collective memories are jaded, how can we forget why most of the western world stayed away from the Moscow Summer Olympics in 1980 or for that matter why the cricketing world spurned any contact with the South African cricket team for a long time. That sure was politics taking precedence over culture and makes sense when pious objectives are at stake. Somehow none of that logic holds good when it comes to we Indians.We do not seem to stand for anything, not even for our own security and self respect. Perhaps, it does not matter to us that many of our fellow countrymen have been and are being slaughtered even now by Pakistani goons and marauders in Kashmir, and probably elsewhere in India. How much more do we have to suffer at the hands of Pakistan's ISI, before we plant our feet firmly on the ground and pick up enough courage to force Pakistan to call off this inadvisable adventure. Our gutless politicians have been clamouring from the roof-tops to any body who would care to listen, to declare Pakistan as a terrorist country. Who is going to take us seriously, when we invite the Pakistan cricket team for a "friendly" tour of India. How would anybody with a degree of sanity, reconcile these contradictions in our body politic. Only the other day one of our petty politicians made a tongue-in-cheek remark that India's image in the world had suffered as a result of the atomic blast in Pokhran. Which image was he talking about? The image of a poor nation, with filth and squalor strewn all over the towns and cities or that of a nation, which does not stand for anything. I fully empathise with what the Shiv Sena is doing to disrupt the Pakistani tour of India. At least they stand for something that should bestir the fence-sitting and "chalo chalta hai" crowd, who have been the bane of Indian society. My kudos to the Sena. Pran Kaul
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 9:07 PM Pakistani cricket players should not be allowed to tour India. Have we got no character? Makhan Seru
Date sent: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:42:01 EST To all the champion of sportsmanship who are hell bent on having cricket matches with a terrorist country like Pakistan, I only ask one question -- why did they not show the same spirit and play with South Africa during the apartheid period? Even their own Congress party was in power then. Or is it that in these so-called sport spirited people's mind, Apartheid was worse than killing of innocent people as Pakistan has been doing in India for the last so many years... An ardent cricket fan who does not want India vs Pak Tests How Readers reacted to Arvind Lavakare's last column How A reader reacted to Saisuresh Sivaswamy's last column
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