But they have to thank a gentleman called Raj Thackeray for this latest victory. The once formidable urban bastions of the Shiv Sena and the BJP in Mumbai, Thane and Nasik have been demolished by Raj Thackeray and his 
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. The party has also won an astounding number of seats. This has given a fresh lease of life to conspiracy theories that seem to suggest that the Congress has deliberately encouraged Raj Thackeray to cut the Shiv Sena down to size — just as it had encouraged the Shiv Sena many decades ago to cut the trade union movement down to size. Back then, the Shiv Sena had unleashed mayhem in the streets of Mumbai, just as the storm troopers of Raj Thackeray are doing at the moment. This is clearly a dangerous and worrying trend because the assembly elections do reveal that a considerable number of Marathi speaking voters seem to think there is something right with the divisive slogans of Raj Thackeray.
But the clear loser in all this is clearly the BJP yet again. It has not only lost the Maharashtra elections for the third consecutive time, the voters in Haryana have put paid to any pretensions that the BJP had about being a strong contender in the state. And from the way the BJP leaders seem to be reacting after this latest trouncing; their fascination for the ostrich seems to be growing by the day. They just refuse to see reality, accept it and do some 'real chintan'. There is a clear disconnect between the current central leadership of the party and both India and Bharat. Is the BJP hell bent on making it that much easier for Rahul Gandhi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections?
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. The party has also won an astounding number of seats. This has given a fresh lease of life to conspiracy theories that seem to suggest that the Congress has deliberately encouraged Raj Thackeray to cut the Shiv Sena down to size — just as it had encouraged the Shiv Sena many decades ago to cut the trade union movement down to size. Back then, the Shiv Sena had unleashed mayhem in the streets of Mumbai, just as the storm troopers of Raj Thackeray are doing at the moment. This is clearly a dangerous and worrying trend because the assembly elections do reveal that a considerable number of Marathi speaking voters seem to think there is something right with the divisive slogans of Raj Thackeray.But the clear loser in all this is clearly the BJP yet again. It has not only lost the Maharashtra elections for the third consecutive time, the voters in Haryana have put paid to any pretensions that the BJP had about being a strong contender in the state. And from the way the BJP leaders seem to be reacting after this latest trouncing; their fascination for the ostrich seems to be growing by the day. They just refuse to see reality, accept it and do some 'real chintan'. There is a clear disconnect between the current central leadership of the party and both India and Bharat. Is the BJP hell bent on making it that much easier for Rahul Gandhi in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections?
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