It was Thursday afternoon as I reached home to get things for my next class I suddenly heard noise outside our society I thought it must be some kind of fight between few people .it was when I stepped out I realised the fight which I thought was small was actually a revolt of its kind of small farmers whose land was being taken away in the name of SEZ-SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE.
It was after reaching college I got to know the actual facts from a classmate who was actually stuck in the traffic due to the protest going on. Around 8000 protestors armed with stones rods and sticks, waving Shiv Sena flags damaged vehicles across Navi Mumbai disrupting traffic for several hours in CBD Belapur, kalamboli and Uran. Manohar Joshi was arrested along with 204 protestors including 144 women. Joshi leader of Shiv Sena said that theirs was a jail Bharo Andolan” similar to the one led by Mahatma Gandhi during the freedom struggle”. But people who were at the receiving end of the mob fury said the protest rally was far from what Gandhi ji used to lead.
And I agree with the people who suffered the onslaught of this fury. I think these politicians are playing dirty politics just using the people who actually are suffering, just for their motive to gain vote bank and that is not good and fair of them. The farmers or the land owners are not even getting enough compensation in return of their land, the only thing on which their life depends on. Even what the politicians are doing, no way matches upto what Gandhi used to preach and practice himself. He was a true believer of non violence whereas in this episode of revolting against Sez, Manohar Joshi is giving violence a cover of non violence. What a practice of irony!
By Shikha Sharma
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