At a time when the BJP and the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) are getting closer on the issue of Hindutva, the former has decided to touch the sensitive topic of north Indians in Mumbai, which is unlikely to be appreciated by the MNS.
In a bid to woo north Indians ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election, senior BJP leader and the former Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis on April 15 said north Indians who had been living in the city for the last four generations were now Mumbaikars.
With the BMC polls round the corner, each political party is working hard to appease the north Indian voters in the city, who are likely to impact at least 100 seats out of 227. The Mumbai Congress too had organised the ‘Uttar Bharatiya Panchayat’ in the city to woo north Indians.
