Guys, many of you are telling just one part of the story, being a marathi born outside mumbai and migrating to mumbai at the age of two i can provide you with both sides view...
shivsena was created in 1960s as an opposition to south indians who were dominant at that time, there wasnt a state called maharshtra till 1961. so it could play the marathi card pretty well and garnered support from natives but didnt really make waves till 1995 when out of nowhere it gained power with support from BJP. it ruled for 4 and half yrs and then lost because of lot corruption, infighting, taking for granted the marathi votes,etc.....during this period it changed its stance and accepted all those people from the rest of India who had being living in mumbai for more than 15yrs..biggest benefacaries were guratis that migrated from gujrat during the time span (who now in mumbai are hardent supporters of shivsena otherthan marathis) ......
with mumbai starting to get uplifed do to economic progress and more job oppurtunities the people from bihar and UP started migrating in huge numbers in late 1990s....many of them came alone with their families staying in their native states and they started forming groups, lived in small houses together, spent little and sent lot of many back to families, since many of them were uneducated they did pity jobs for less money and so on...thus started disturbing the monopoly of the locals, many of locals cheated so the middle class strayed towards the hard working, cheap migrants which added to job losses or oppertunities ......so the ruckus began which both MNS and shivsena turned into political agenda....and continues to burn mumbai!!
only possible solution to this is creation of jobs and providing better education to them in the native states of the migrants which again for reasons like corruption arent taken into account..parties like RJD,SP make it a political agenda at home states and try to earn votes.....SP a few months ago went to the extent of a demand banning english which the world knows provides 25%of jobs in India, by doing so they want people to be uneducated and fight amongst themselves over religion and cast so that they gain political mileage !!!
by keeping a stalemate the only beneficiaries are the political parties and the losers being both marathi, bihari and UP people... along with Indian economy!!
the media has been attacked because for quite some time it has been showing only the shivsena in the wrong, the actual situation being all political parties being guilty!!!
