Sena's latest target: Mumbai-Bombay tug of war

NAME GAME: Sena workers demand that Mumbai be used in place of Bombay.

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Mumbai: It's the return of the Mumbai-Bombay tug of war. The Shiv Sena's latest targets are the Bombay Scottish school and the Bombay Dyeing Mills.

Sena workers blackened the signboards and demanded that Mumbai be used in place of Bombay.

Not happy with renaming the island city as Mumbai almost 12 years ago. On Sunday, Shiv Sena members vandalised signboards of two prominent institutions, which cling on to the B-word in their names.

Bombay Scottish school and Bombay Dyeing Mills 'Mumbai Scottish' was painted on the wall of the school while signboards were knocked down outside the furnishing company's showroom in Worli.

Incidentally the Bombay Scottish alumni includes Aditya Thackeray, son of Sena president Uddhav Thackeray.

Saamna Editor Sanjay Raut said, “For the last 25 years Shiv Sena has been fighting for the cause of Mumbai and saying this city should be called Mumbai yet some people think they are Badshahs of Bombay.”

Insiders say Shiv Sena is raising the Bombay-Mumbai controversy only to counter Raj Thackeray's MNS. Some Sena leaders seem worried over the support that MNS is getting with the popular, Marathi manoos agenda.

Its not just the name of the city but also its favourite snack that the Sena has eyes on and if their plans succeed. The Shiv vada pav could become a fixture at stalls across Mumbai but the common man says the name change is all a political name-game.

So what's next? The Mumbai High court perhaps or the Mumbai Stock Exchange. For the Sena that prides itself in taking up the cause of the Marathi manoos clearly, its all about the name.

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