This�is beyond being “funny”
“…(Maharashtra) state Finance Minister Jayant Patil…announced in the state legislative assembly that 80 per cent jobs in companies that will now open units in Maharashtra must go to locals.
…The finance minister also defined the Marathi manoos. �It has to be a person who has been living in Maharashtra for more than 15 years and knows Marathi,� he said.
I fail the test…miserably.
The problem is - in my entire life, I have never lived for 15 years in any single city or state…Who will hire me now?
And quite how they are going to ensure compliance is beyond me (in spite of Shri Patil’s ominous words: “We will be strict…”).
Sadly, this is probably not the last blow to the idea of an Indian/”Bharatiya” identity.
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A few weeks ago, I had asked the question, Can NRIs become MPs in India?
I now understand that not only NRIs but even foreigners can apparently become MPs provided they have the right documents
.the CBI in its final probe report before the Supreme Court said the documents produced byCongress MP from Assam Mani Kumar Subbato claim Indian citizenship were “not correct”
If the findings of the CBI are held to be correct by the apex court after scrutinising the response of the MP, Subba could stand to lose his membership in Parliament as only Indians can be elected to both the Houses.
Shri Subba had allegedly escaped from a Napalese prison hospital to Assam’s Tinsukia district via Sikkim in 1962
He may have avoided all this trouble if he had spent just a little bit of money. After all, Rs 7,500 is all it takes to get a genuine passport(and with the recent “glut” in the market,the price may actually be coming down)
And for a little bit more, you can get a ration card, a PAN card, a voter I-Card, a birth certificate AND a passport in other words, a bullet-proofidentity.
Shri Subba may or may not be a Nepali citizen but what about the continuing mass infiltration from across our eastern border that shows no signs of abatement? What about the increasing presence of Jihadis in the region?
Looking at the way in which the tentacles of terror are spreading, I wonder, is any state/city now safe?
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