‘N Indians adding to travel woes of Marathis’

The paper decried the hue and cry raised over the mob lynching of Dharam Dev in a local train recently and said, “This episode had nothing to do with Marathi-Bihari divide as was projected by some elements. In Mumbai’s local trains hundreds of such incidents take place daily and even Marathi people too get beaten up.”

The paper also condemned the reported attack on a Marathi woman IAS officer named Ashvini Thakre in Poorniya district of Bihar and said not a single Bihari leader spoke against it.

It also criticised the reported refusal of Bihar Chief Miniser Nitish Kumar to attend an NDA Kisan rally organised in Haryana because Shiv Sena too had been invited for the same.

No Shiv Sena leader actually attended the rally called by Omprakash Chautala. But Nitish Kumar chose to make a political stunt, the editorial said.

“These pseudo secularists are comfortable in the company of Imam of Jama Masjid or Muslim league. But they hate the nationalist Shiv Sena,” it alleged.

“When Bihar was ravaged by the fury of Kosi in spate, help reached there from Mumbai. A medical team went to Bihar and one Dr Chandrakant Patil died there while discharging his duty towards the hapless Biharis,” it added.