If you bring Mistry book back,let Moro work too be in syllabus: Aditya

Referring to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan’s reported comments objecting to the university’s decision,Aditya said that if Mistry’s book was to be reintroduced,The Red Saree too should be published in India. Senior Congress leaders in Delhi were reported to have taken objection to the author’s plan to release the English translation in India earlier this year and tried to stop it saying it was not an accurate depiction of Sonia Gandhi’s life.

About Mistry’s book,Aditya said one could be critical of policies but it is incorrect to abuse dabbawalas,Maharashtrians and the Sena. “If inflammatory speeches can be banned,then inflammatory literature too can be banned. One can criticise policies but using abuses is wrong,” said the final year student of Arts at St Xavier’s,adding reading the offending passage was “enough to give goosebumps”.

“How can it be introduced in the curriculum? Only those who get sadistic pleasure can read it,” said Aditya,adding that other authors such as V S Naipaul had been critical about similar issues but without hurling abuses. “Even the Constitution says that freedom is subject to certain reasonable restrictions. I can walk on the road but not slap people in the process as it will cause them hurt.”

He explained the party’s opposition to Bigg Boss for involving Pakistani actors. Saying the show also had a former dacoit,Aditya called it a mockery of law and order. “They will put up a camera at Arthur Road jail for the next season,” said Aditya.

About the Yuva Sena,Aditya said it would catering to the youth joining the Sena. “The need to organise and assimilate the youth who are coming to the Shiv Sena has increased. The youth will also be made socially active,” he said,adding issues such as educational reforms and careers would be taken up. The Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena (BVS) would be part of this “umbrella body” as also other fronts dealing with political and social issues.

Aditya said he would try and ensure that young blood,including active workers from the Yuva Sena,get nominated as the party’s candidates in the 2012 BMC polls. Besides giving a new perspective,youngsters have the potential to “swing” things. But he denied any link between the Yuva Sena launch and Raj Thackeray’s MNS making inroads into the youth votebank.

Aditya said the wing would act against educational institutes that seek donations and raise fees indiscriminately.

The Yuva Sena would bar its office-bearers and cadre from putting up birthday posters of its leaders and would seek this money be donated to charity or for educational or medical purposes.

He added the organisation would also oppose the caste-based census as it would accentuate caste divisions in society and instead call on people to mention Indians as their caste. “We are in an age where we are trying to break that construct (of caste),” Aditya said,pointing to the Sena’s demand for reservations on economic grounds.