Click to play videoMumbai: Following Supreme Court’s green signal to the quota law, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena on Thursday demanded 80 per cent reservation for locals in both the private and the public sector.
Raj Thackeray sent at least 45,000 copies of his letters to industrialists:
- demanding 100 per cent job reservation for Marathi speakers in upcoming industries,
- asking non-Maharashtrian employees to vacate their jobs for locals,
- and ensuring that locals get recruited in organisations like BEST and RBI.
Party leaders say corporate do not have any choice in the matter.
"After accepting the letters if they don't admit the locals, then we know what needs to be done," MNS Kamgar Sena leader Manoj Chavan warned.
Corporate declined to speak on record. The Indian Merchants Chamber had on Wednesday come out with a strongly worded statement, which was hurriedly withdrawn hours later.
Corporate executives, however, are unhappy with the diktat and feel that the MNS is over stepping its limits.
They say everybody should be given equal importance in a cosmopolitan city like Mumbai.
It seem the fledgling MNS is going all out to build a constituency, but their climb to the top of the political ladder may prove to be a bumpy ride for the corporate sector in Maharashtra.
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