The extremist political party, Shiv Sena, has returned out of its political hibernation of sorts with a fulmination against Pak players currently playing in the multi-million dollar Indian Premier League. The party’s executive President Uddhav Thackrey asked the IPL authorities to ban Pak players from playing in the league. His diatribe came just hours before Mumbai Indians’ home game against Kolkata Knight Riders.
He labeled Pakistanis as enemies of the entire nation and reminded everyone that his party has been campaigning against them playing the country. “They (Pakistanis) are the enemies of the entire nation and we have been opposing their playing here for many years now,” he told reporters.
Some habits can be difficult to break and Sena is bound by its old ways of engaging in irrational chauvinism. Perhaps if someone could apprise them of the fact that the world has entered a new millennium – that of cultural convergence, tolerance, and globalization- they might just reinvent their old partisan attitude.
Anyways not many people usually lend their ears to the Sena, and besides people are so engrossed with the IPL at this moment that they have no time to heed the senseless Sena.
