MNS: Its Your Time Now

I know you would have appreciated this message in Devnagri. But being an English medium student since kindergarten and now working in a MNC culture under the cloak of globalisation, writing has always been in this language. Hence I would appreciate if this would be considered only as medium which I have used to put my point across.

Before getting into details I would like to categorically mention one thing at the start,

“Our Time Is Coming !!!”

Since our secondary school days one word became, all of a sudden, too much popular; Globalisation. It sounded good, showed many dreams. Dreams of having a world without borders, trade, knowledge, expertise being shared with all neighbouring countries, business made easy, new horizons to be explored, new cultures to be shared. Everyone liked and fell for the idea. But no one did ever keep a tap or decided about the Line upto which things shall be permitted under the cloak of globalisation and where they should be asked to halt. If today someone asks me – ‘What is Globalisation’, all I will say – ‘It is just a façade used by big corporations and economic hitmen to gain control and huge contracts. And a great tool for the political class to use it as a fodder in all political campaigns, be it pro or anti.’

Being said that, I would also like to mention that I am not against the idea. But we need to keep a tap on the cost we are bearing in order to implement it. The fault line in contemporary politics is those that embrace globalisation look only at the near future profit whereas those that fear globalisation are the ones who do not wish to come out of their comfort zone and compete in the larger market. We have to find a solution that lies in between of these two ideas.

The reason for mentioning this in the start is, people have now begun to reject the idea of One World. We no more want our nation to be run by the ideas of few bunch of people sitting in the air-conditioned halls. Because in the process of making a single common market, people are feeling the sense of threat that they might lose their place in that world, only to be termed as collateral damage in the future.

What happened in UK and then in USA signifies the rise of new world power. The Peoples' power. Let’s take the example of UK and their exit from European Union or which is popularly termed as Brexit. Just before the referendum of staying or leaving European Union, UK had somehow managed to keep The UK united when they won the referendum in Scotland. The wealthy tried their best to coerce the scots in staying and they did win in the end. (I used the term coerce because the same people which voted to stay in UK, influenced by these campaigns, where the ones who wanted to leave UK post UK-EU referendum results) But the same bunch couldn’t do it for the entire UK. And as a result, Britain finally left the EU. 

Look what happened in the US. Every possible power which could be brought in service to keep Donald Trump out of White House was called upon in order to ensure the Democrat Clintons victory. The way world media portrayed him, social media mocked him, every possible mode of communication flooded with his jokes showed the desperation of what the rich wanted. But in the end after all the heated and controversial campaign, Trump triumphed. He may not have the populist vote, but his ideas will now be defining the USA.

And that’s the reason I am writing to you. Ever since MNS was established I had found someone to look upon. Your political acumen always sets you apart from the rest political class. And on this day MNS is the only party who has a complete Blue Print ready and not just typical pracharnama. MNS had taken the anti-immigrant stand since its inception and even today is firm on the same. Inspite of the all the criticism, the defeats in 2014, the party still has followers who believe in the leadership of Raj Thackeray.

The worlds established order is breaking. The usual rhetoric’s of media or few bunch of experts will not be defining the nation or states path but peoples voice will. That voice only needs to be channelised in proper direction. With your unmatched oratory, MNS should surely stress on the change which happened in USA and UK during the campaign for the upcoming Municipal Corporation polls in major cities. Instead of running an anti-establishment campaign MNS should strongly put their points across which they have been doing since 2006, but this time citing the examples of Worlds two big super powers. If those countries where majority of our young generation dreams to go can understand the importance of sons of soils, why should we stay behind. All MNS need is to potray the same, but from the other side of the coin. Instead of pouring hate on the immigrants, first step should be to make residents realise the importance of their home. Ideas are bulletproof. Once this is planted successfully, rest will follow.

MNS also needs to spread the idea of the blueprint across these cities. To win the state, party needs to capture the major cities first. I had gone through the Blue print, not thoroughly but in brief, back in 2014. The quantum of supporting documents, analytics and the need of the 21^st century has been incorporated in a very neat way. Had the same been produced by a Modi led team back in 2014 during that wave, articles of the size of newspapers would have been written by media experts back then just to explain how big a vision document are they producing. But this time the party shouldn’t let that massive document go unnoticed.

I won’t be saying or mentioning here what and how things need to be done, for you know better than anyone how MNS works. I just wanted to say, the time is coming. And this time MNS has huge citations for their ideas. And we should be using those aggressively in the upcoming poll campaigns.

Let us once again go back to 2007 from where it all started. The party, post its formation, had to immediately face civic polls in different cities. Today, after back to back setback in 2014, MNS needs to fire all the cylinders in full throttle now to win back the space. So begin in a new way with a powerful and more organised MNS and not a mere anti-establishment party. And carve out that space once again in the political spectrum.

Yes, its possible!!!

-SR.