Indian hardline party Shiv Sena on Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to follow Donald Trump’s footsteps and protect jobs for “sons of the soil.”
Shiv Sena in an editorial in Saamana said, “Pakistani artistes, technicians and TV people come to India to earn money while touting words like friendship and ties. They snatch away the livelihood of locals here.”
“Can India implement a policy like Trump and say that these Pakistanis won’t get a job here and also declare that those who give work to Pakistanis are the enemies of India,” the editorial read.
US president-elect Trump recently pledged to keep manufacturing jobs at home. According to The Indian Express, Trump said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign employees.
“What someone like Trump…can do, our PM, who is known as courageous and knowledgeable, can certainly do,” Shiv Sena further said in the op-ed, claiming that Trump’s move portrays he may have been inspired by Bal Thackeray on his slogan of “jobs in the US for sons of soil only”.
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan called upon MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday ahead of his upcoming film ‘Raees’, which features Pakistani actress Mahira Khan.
The issue of Pakistani artists created a storm this year after the MNS objected to casting of actors from the neighbouring country in Bollywood movies citing their involvement in terrorist attacks in India.
In September, a hardline Hindu political party in India demanded all Pakistani artists working there to leave the country, threatening to use force against them if they fail to comply. “We give all Pakistani artists working in India 48 hours to leave the country,” leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Umaj Khopkar, had said.
“If they don’t do so, we will use force and throw them out [of India],” added MNS General Secretary Shalini Thackeray. “We will interrupt their [film] shoots and won’t allow the movies they have acted in to be released,” she threatened.
In October, the MNS had staged high-voltage protests against the release of filmmaker Karan Johar’s ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil’ for featuring Pakistani actor Fawad Khan. But they later withdrew it after assurances from the film fraternity following ‘mediation’ by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to calm tempers.
How many Pakistanis went to India for job, not 0.000000001%. Shive Sina thinks they will become poor by paying Pakistanis. Look at the status of their mind which gone done the drain.
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