KOLKATA: Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has waded into controversy by reportedly saying that Mumbai won't have money and would cease to be the financial capital if Gujaratis and Rajasthanis were removed from it. It is not entirely clear as to what prompted this gratuitous remark, and while his office has now issued a clarification, in effect, walking back his statement, the damage has been done.
In a state that has in the past been beset by strong nativist sentiments - Shiv Sena rode to prominence on the back of precisely such a feeling - to open this particular can of worms so cavalierly made little sense.
