ShivSena – Its not a Party but a Revolution

After blogging for more than couple of years I still was not able to write about my Passion i.e. ShivSena. Well I think all special things need a special occasion and on the eve of Dussehra I am writing about ShivSena. So why Dussehra??? Dussehra also called as VijayaDashmi is a festival of Hindus and is celebrated to mark the victory of Lord Rama over the evil Ravana. It is an auspicious occasion for Hindus. So how is Dusshera connected with ShivSena?? Well ShivSena is only political party which promotes Hindutva in Hindustan and on occasion of Dussehra, ShivSena conducts a huge rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. 

Dussehra rally is a 40 year old tradition of ShivSena. People from all over India visit Shivaji Park to listen to the speech of their favorite leader Shivsena Supremo Balasaheb Thackeray. It is not only the speech but for us ShivSainiks these are the words of GOD which give us belief, power and inspiration to fulfill our dreams and work towards betterment of Hindustan. Well ShivSena calls India as Hindustan, the reason being that more than 80% of our population is Hindus. So our country should be a Hindu country and called “Hindustan”. But for vote bank politics Congress over the years have made India a secular country and no party other than ShivSena wants Hindustan to be a Hindu Country.  

ShivSena was born on June 19 1966 to fight for the right of Marathi Manoos in Mumbai. Even though Mumbai belonged to Marathis and was capital of Maharashtra, Marathis in Mumbai were living a miserable life. People from outside states were entering Mumbai and were creating problems for local Mumbaikars. Congress government because of their vote bank politics were not concerned about the Marathi speaking people and this added to the woes of Marathis in Mumbai. They were looking for a leader who will fight for their rights in their own city. And in came the revolution in the name of “Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray”- A leader which showed Marathi Manoos how to live with pride and dignity in Mumbai. 

As mentioned earlier BalaSaheb Thackerey formed Shivsena on 19^th of June 1966. Shiv-Sena means army of Shivaji Maharaj (a valiant Maratha warrior who led the foundation of Hindavi Swaraj in Hindustan). On 30^th October 1966 BalaSaheb Thackeray organized first ShivSena melava at Shivaji Park in Mumbai. Melava was attended by millions of people from all around Maharashtra and turned out to be revolution in the history of Indian Politics. A new political party was born whose main aim was to fight against injustice on Marathi Manoos. During that Melava BalaSaheb Thackeray talked about the problem of influx of migrants in Mumbai and inspired Marathi people to start their own business rather than spending their life working under others. 

ShivSena’s primary objective is to work for “Marathi Manus”. Lot of ShivSena affiliated bodies like BKS (Bhartiya Kamgar Sena), Sthaniya Lokadhikar Samiti look into the issues faced by Marathis in various sectors. They have a strong union in lots of big companies like Reliance, Indian Oil and so on and their main objective is to see that preference is given to Marathi people during recruitment and also address other issues faced by Marathi Manus in this companies. Operations of ShivSena are controlled from “SenaBhavan” in Dadar. Lots of ShivSena big leaders sit in SenaBhavan and are accessible at most times to solve the problems of public. ShivSena major meetings, decisions, press conferences are held at SenaBhavan. There are also lectures given on various subjects like career options, various career opportunities for youth at SenaBhavan.

ShivSena also see to it that in most of the government sectors like Banks, Railways, Insurance whose branches are in Mumbai first preference for job is given to local Marathi people in Mumbai.  Apart from this ShivSena in affiliation with various training institutes conduct various training courses at a very low cost or at times even free of cost. ShivSena also indulges in social service like organizing blood donation camps, Eye Check up and Eye donation camps, provide vegetables and food grains at a very low cost and so on. ShivSena also has a 24 hours ambulance service in most of the cities in Maharashtra. 

ShivSena resorted to Hindutva in 1993 after the Babari Masjid Demolition. Babari Masjid was demolished on 6^th Dec 1992 and it’s after effects were spread all around India. Even in Mumbai there was lot of communal tensions between Hindus and Muslims. During these growing tensions Mumbai witnessed the series of Bomb blasts on 12^th of March 1993 which led to the riots between Hindus and Muslims in city. During this time ShivSena supported lots of innocent Hindus and even Muslims in Mumbai and ShivSena supremo BalaSaheb Thackeray came to be known as HinduhrudaySamrat all around Hindustan. ShivSena and BalaSaheb Thackerey have also targeted Pakistan on plenty of occasions and are of the opinion that till there should not be any friendship with Pakistan till there is an end to cross border Terrorism Even today if anyone speaks against Hindusm, ShivSena is the first party to target that individual or organization. 

ShivSena along with BJP ruled Maharashtra from 1995 to 1999 and carried out plenty of development work like construction of 55 flyovers in Mumbai, and connecting Mumbai and Pune through Express highway. ShivSena also undertook lots of projects for Marathi Manus in Maharashtra when they were in power. One striking thing to note was that during these 5 years the prices of basic necessities like Sugar, Kerosene, Tur Dal where never increased. ShivSena also experience some heartbreak when the trusted leaders like Narayan Rane and Raj Thackerey parted away from the party.  

BalaSaheb Thackerey even today controls ShivSena. However because of the growing age of BalaSaheb, much of the party affairs are handled by UddhavSaheb Thackeray (son of BalaSaheb Thackeray) under the guidance of BalaSaheb. Aditya Thackeray who is the son of UddhavSaheb Thackeray is currently heading YuvaSena a youth wing of the party.  There is plenty to write about ShivSena (I think a whole book can be published) but since it is a Blog I am stopping it right here. I just pray to the God that in coming years ShivSena should rule Maharashtra which is presently plagued by incompetent leadership of Cong-NCP Government. I also dream that one day our ShivSena’s saffron Flag waves proudly in Lal Quilla in Delhi.

-Jay Hind

-Jay Maharashtra