Eh? Get your facts right. It's Bangalore which has been doing this for years. In fact Mumbai has followed B'lore footsteps.
perhaps i dont know the history of bangalore/karnataka politics (even though i was born in the south), but let me tell you this, the "devils" in mumbai beat the crap out of south indians way back in 1960s. what happened in February was merely a "trailer of the sequel".
Snipped from wiki : "Thackeray, then a cartoonist for the Free Press journal, initially targeted the growing number of South Indians by inflammatory slogans like
"lungi hatao pungi bajao" (referring to the
lungi, a Marathi word for the traditional men's dress in South India)[5], and "
yendu gundu" (a derogatory description of the Dravidian languages spoken by the people from South India).[14] During this period, Shiv Sainiks launched a string of attacks on the South-Indian owned
Udupi restaurants that were becoming popular in Mumbai.[13] In a similar manner, Thackeray later targeted Gujaratis, Marwaris, Biharis, and people from North Indian states like Uttar Pradesh ('UPites') through his speeches."
So you see, mumbai literally beats the crap out of the competition when it comes to petty vote bank politics and regionalism
. And hence i wasnt wrong in saying chennai is following in the footsteps of mumbai......
Btw i dont have anything against chennai (afterall i was born there
)
I've been to Bangalore/Karnataka for atleast 3 times. B'Lore is just 6 hours drive from Chennai. These incidents gave an excuse for me to cancel Bangalore in our vacation itinerary.
all i am saying is you dont need to "boycott" bangalore just because there are some insensitive politicians there....... because it wont make any difference to them.......
for all those singles in life and you wanna get good life partners,dates, and it is bangalore with guaranteed.
yeah, and after ur married and settled down, you will be chased thru the streets, and threatened to be kicked out.(if ur a tamilian). LOL
[well lets just place the buck on our politicians..........
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