Where was Raj? ... Gela Raj koni kade?

Bombay, mumbai as some may insist to reffer it as, was rocked and shaked by the terror attack for almost four days now. High on drama and costing life of many it has once again brought up various issues including the safety of people, politicising of issues and lack of sensitivity in politicians who use these incidents to condemn the incapability of other politicians instead of gearing up and participating in help operations and creating a sense of security among public. One such insensitivity was seen in the attention seeking Mr. Raj Thackery and its notorious MNS who had vanished and seen no were around during the time of crisis.

Today was the first time in four days that Mr. Raj Thackery was seen in public at Late Hemant Karkare's funeral. I wonder where he has been all the time when mumbai cha manoos was terrorised, hurt and even killed in the attacks at various places. He and his sena (MNS) has always been actively raising their voice against any harm to Marathi manoos and insisting on not letting the language die in the midst of the metropolitan culture. But what about the dying people? is that all he wants to cater to : Marathi, marathi manoos and Shivaji maharaj? Years back, he made a huge issue to change the old names to Marathi names, Bombay was chnaged to Mumbai and so were many other streets, areas, airports and more places. He was infuriated when the name of Shivaji Maharaj was disregarded in a film. And when Victoria Terminus was changed to Chatraati Shivaji Terminus, wont any attack on this building be considered to bring out same amount of fury? Was it just about the name of the station? was there no rsponsibility to atleast voice against it? Was he going to react only if majority of the targets were marathi manoos or a bullet was hit to one of the many Shivaji Maharaj statues?
His sena that considers itself to be strong and believe to be great achiever when they break the offices, shops, malls, thrash the vehicles of citizens, stone the buses and are capable of carrying out and enforcing at times the Bandhs, were seen no were. Ofcourse, no one is expecting them to go out and fight physically with the terrorists. But can one expect to see them safeguarding the citizens at such crutial times? can there not be any constructive use of the force that MNS has? Can they not participate in handling the crowds at the sensitive areas or take care of safety on the roads when the Mumbai police is busy at the attack sites? Can they not take up the issue of safety of common man (consisting mostly of his beloved Marathi manoos) than creating riots?

Its high time to deal with the terrorism persisting within and only then can we stand more unitedly against the one coming from outside.