India 1972 Marathi movie Harya Narya Zindabad press book booklet Nilu Phule

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Cast: Nilu Phule, Sarla Yevlekar, RatnAmala, Ram Nagarkar, Chandra Lekha, Gulab Mokashi, Madhu Bhosle, Aaya Baldev, Maya Jadhav
Director: Govind Kulkarni
Producer: Baburao Borde
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1972
Language: Marathi
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National
Magazine | Feb 15, 1999
Maharashtra
Streetfighter To CM
With elections round the corner, Thackeray needed a yes-man with his ear to the ground
Sujata Anandan
Maharashtra's new chief minister, Narayan Tatu Rane, has a past his detractors would like to turn the spotlight on. That a man accused of murder - the case is posted by the Bombay high court for hearing next week - should be elevated to the CM's post is unacceptable, they feel. But India is a democracy and Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has lent a huge helping hand to Narayan Tatu Rane, aka 'NTR'.
The police say the new CM was part fo the Harya-Narya gang in the '60s and has a murder case against him.
Pointing fingers at a dubious background, the police say Rane preferred the acronym of 'Narya' while operating with one Hariparab as part of the Harya-Narya gang, which was active in Chembur in north-east Bombay in the '60s. According to Madhav Deshpande, Shiv Sena treasurer who has now quit the party, the duo was so notorious that director Nilu Phule even named a Marathi film Harya-Narya Zindabad at the time. The film, wisely, had nothing further to do with the Harya-Narya gang.
According to police records, Narya, who began operations at the age of 14, was beaten to pulp by another gangster, Mahadev Thakur, for invading his territory in the late '60s. Taking months to recover, he sought refuge in the Shiv Sena to take on rival gangsters. Rane ended up as a shakha pramukh, swiftly moving up the ranks. First, he became a municipal corporator, then an mla, a minister and finally CM.
A fair section of the police and bureaucracy are appalled that the man they often looked for and even roughed up at times, who has firs against him at the Ghatla police station, now rules the state. 'This is a cruel joke perpetrated upon us by democracy,' says one official. What he and other like-minded bureaucrats find even more appalling, though, is that their esteemed colleagues are already queueing up before the new CM's chambers, seeking plum postings.
'It is a sign of our times,' says Sudhir Sawant, aicc joint secretary, 'that a man not even fit to be an mla should today become the chief minister of a state like Maharashtra.' Sawant has his reasons.
Joshi is a Brahmin, and with Congress having a crop of Maratha leaders, the Sena brought in Rane.
He was beaten up by Rane's men - he was merely an mla - a day after Rajiv Gandhi's assassination for daring to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg district, Rane's home turf. A few days later, Sawant's campaign manager, Shridhar Nayak, was murdered. This case has been posted before the Bombay high court, the petitioner being Ramakant Sawant, one of the main witnesses.
To be fair to Rane, he was acquitted by the lower courts at Sawantwadi, some 18 months ago. The case should have died a natural death, considering that the government did not appeal. This, despite a recommendation from the special public prosecutor, appointed by the previous Congress regime, that the ruling deserved to be challenged because the police appeared to have tampered with the evidence and the witnesses had turned hostile.
'Did anyone expect anything else?' asks Sawant. 'This man was sitting in the dock in court, intimidating the witnesses by just staring at them throughout their deposition. They had to live after all. So the other four accused were convicted of the murder of my political worker and Rane himself was acquitted.'
Thus, when the state failed to appeal, Ramakant Sawant filed a review petition in the Bombay high court. He is being represented by Imtiaz Patel and Majeed Memon, formidable names in legal circles, who have taken on the Shiv Sena before and lived to tell the tale.
"People like him have their uses -- on the streets, nots as the CM," says an ex-Sena man. But Rane's flock exults: "He's from our street."
Patel has no doubt that justice will be done. 'This is a democracy, after all,' he says.
The very same democratic norms were nevertheless responsible in their own way for bringing down former chief minister Manohar Joshi. Justice B.N. Srikrishna, of the Srikrishna Commission fame, is currently presiding over a pil filed against the bending of laws by Joshi to aid his son-in-law's bank balance. According to political observers, Thackeray was terrified of the disrepute his party might suffer if the court ruling, as expected, went against his chief minister. A court ruling might still go against the incumbent chief minister's office, even though Joshi is out.
There is another reason for Joshi's downfall. He is a Brahmin in a state dominated by Marathas, who constitute 40 per cent of the electorate in Maharashtra. And currently, the Congress has a crop of Maratha leaders: Sharad Pawar, mpcc chief Prataprao Bhosale, former home minister S.B. Chavan, to name only a few. Being the 'natural' ruling class, the Marathas in the Sena were peeved that no sops were being offered to them. And that neither was a Maratha being made chief minister. Rane is a Maratha and fits the bill perfectly.
With Dalit and Muslim consolidation behind the Congress becoming evident in the 1998 Lok Sabha elections, the Sena's ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party, was worried that it had very little to show the electorate except 55 as-yet-unfinished flyovers in Mumbai. 'No one wins votes for flyovers alone. We will have to work out the caste combinations sooner rather than later if we wish to beat the Congress,' says one bjp leader.
The trouble for Thackeray, though, may be that the bjp wishes to beat even the Sena to second place in Maharashtra and it was not growing in the state largely because of Joshi, who essentially learnt his politics at the feet of the late Congress stalwart, Vasantdada Patil, not Thackeray. When Joshi was CM, he successfully curtailed the stature of both deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde and the bjp.
For instance, Munde who long fancied himself as Joshi's equal and wanted chambers in the state secretariat renovated to the same degree as the erstwhile chief minister's, found Joshi sitting on his file for seven months. In the end, the task was accomplished through the Public Works Department handled by bjp minister Nitin Gadkari.
The entire episode could be dismissed as a trivial, harmless 'tiff'. But what about the instance when Joshi - despite Munde's insistence - refused to give the green signal to a proposal to set up a separate department for wandering and nomadic tribes in Maharashtra? Significantly, in the very first Cabinet decision taken after Joshi's ouster, Rane announced the setting up of such a unit. The new CM was egged on by Munde, who now fancies himself as more than Rane's equal.
And though in ousting Joshi, Thackeray might have played straight into the hands of the bjp, Rane suits both Thackeray and the bjp. The incumbent chief minister can be expected, at least initially, to sign on the dotted line where Joshi fiercely resisted attempts by his party chief to pressure him on sundry issues.
Joshi was a misfit in the Sena. His wit and sophistication set him apart in a party generally not known to back intellectuals. For example, the initial idea to deny the Shiv Sena's involvement in the attack on the offices of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (bcci) was Joshi's. He thought this would help him survive the remainder of his term in office. But when the Sena itself made no bones about the attack, making his denials meaningless, he had the Shiv Sainiks involved in the attack arrested. This to prove that his government upholds the law.
But this also proved to be the last straw for Thackeray. The fact that Shiv Sainiks should obey his orders, then not receive the 'shabashi' due to them and find themselves in the slammer, was said to be too much for the Sena chief to stomach. It eroded his authority among his footsoldiers and presented a picture - unacceptable to Thackeray - to the world that Joshi held the whip in the party.
This is where Rane came in. For a long time now, Thackeray has been loaded with complaints from Shiv Sainiks that Joshi conveniently looked the other way while the police hauled them up for petty crimes and extortion. Rane promised Thackeray a free hand in ensuring organisational growth if he was made the chief minister. And lacking, as Rane does, Joshi's sophistication, Thackeray believes he has little to fear from the new CM who is expected to follow his orders, no questions asked.
Says one political observer: 'All that Thackeray needs now is a rubber stamp. He may not care if Rane is thrown to the wolves later. Joshi, on the other hand, was safeguarding his own skin and refusing to sign documents that might implicate him later.' Rane is expected to survive the confidence vote on February 17. Many independent mlas not accommodated in the Joshi ministry, who were even flirting - rather fruitlessly - with the Congress, have crossed over to the Sena with a written statement of support, now that they have been doled out several ministerial positions.
Says Congressman Major Sawant: 'It is a goonda raj now in all its manifestations. Joshi was a cultured man. This man has neither values nor scruples. The cbi has a record of calls made to Rane from the home of former bjp MP Brij Bhushan Saran Das by Subhash Singh Thakur, a noted Dawood man.' The link that Sawant seeks to establish may not be far to seek: Rane is on record in a leading Marathi daily of Mumbai justifying the calls. He was seeking protection for the party from Dawood, he was quoted as saying. 'Now Dawood will be able to freely launder his money in Mumbai,' quips Sawant.
That may be a trifle difficult, but says Madhav Deshpande, a founder member of the Sena: 'Men like Rane have their uses. On the streets, not in the CM's chair.' To which, Rane's supporters, surprised at the developments to say the least, retort: 'He is a man from our street. And it does wonders for us all that even a street urchin can aspire to the highest office in the state.'
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