Fishes better than Thackeray!

MUMBAI, NOV 8: For Sandeep Mohite, Dilip Bhosale and Ravindra Shinde and few of their farmer friends from Yewla, pomfret is preferable to Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray8217;s speech. The group of farmers who visited Mumbai to see the Agro-Food 98 exhibition at Goregaon skipped Thackeray8217;s speech and used the time to buy fresh fish from Agar Bazaar at Prabhadevi.

When asked, Mohite said, 8220;We have been hearing Thackeray8217;s speech for years together. We8217;ll get to read it in tomorrow8217;s newspaper also. But we could not have missed the opportunity to buy fresh fish,8221; he said.

Yet another group from Parbhani did not even bother to visit the exhibition or to listen to Thackeray8217;s speech. One of them said, 8220;We came here to see Mumbai. We have been to the Gateway of India, the Girgaum-Chowpatty and the Dadar-Chowpatty. As half the tariff for travelling was paid by the State Government, we decided to make a picnic to Mumbai.8221;