“I can understand what he is trying to tap into…I can understand the reason why he is succeeding to the extent he is. He may have tapped into something very real,” De said in an interview to a TV programme.
“In fact it is everybody else first and Maharashtra last. I don’t blame everybody else and I don’t look on them as outsiders. I think Maharashtrians need to do a great deal of inner looking and thinking to figure out themselves why the city’s complexion has changed,” she said
Backing Raj Thackarey, the noted author said, “he has a right to speak what he wants to and the same right to challenge and oppose”.
Even while asserting that Thackarey was being political, she said “it seems that it is only in Maharshtra that Marathi people seem to be the last to get the jobs”.
“I am definitely saying that Maharashtrians have got a raw deal, which does not mean that I am in any way supporting violence and endorsing what Raj Thackarey stands for. Raw deal also has a lot to do with the Maharashtrian way of not asserting themselves.”
“They are too laid back and there is a lot of intellectual arrogance. Maharashtrians are not assertive enough at all,” De said.
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