A comic dimension was added to Maharashtra politics as the Shiv Sena mouthpiece `Saamana' parodied the State Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, caricaturing him as a newly wed bride.
PUNE: A comic dimension was added to Maharashtra politics as the Shiv Sena mouthpiece `Saamana' parodied the State Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, caricaturing him as a newly wed bride.
The caricature was apparently in response to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's light-hearted remark describing Rane as a just married, confused daughter-in-law in Congress.
The `Saamana' carried the front page political satire in its Thursday's edition that led to sporadic incidents, in which some alleged supporters attacked the papers office in Pune and burnt its copies in other parts.
The Revenue Minister has made no secret of his chief ministerial ambitions since he left the Sena and joined Congress two years back.
It was Deshmukh's comment on his bete noire in New Delhi on Wednesday after his meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi that set the tone for the `Saamana' pillory of Rane.
When asked to react to Rane's seemingly unending trips to the national capital to plead his case with the party high command for the top post in the state, the CM said, "He is like a confused new daughter-in-law in the house (of Congress). It takes time to get adjusted to the new surroundings and to graduate to a new culture."
The Chief Minister's good humoured remarks nevertheless offered sufficient fodder to `Saamana' as it published Rane's caricature depicting him as a heavily made up bride clad in an ornamental saree, the next day, Thursday, leading to protests by the alleged Rane followers in Congress.
The `Saamana' headline that accompanied Rane's female avatar said `Nav vadhu priya me bavarateua', a line from a popular song penned by famous Marathi poet B R Tambe, an allegory to the state of mind of a newly wed bride and her
blushes.
While condemning the Rane supporters for the attack on the paper's office in Pune, `Saamana' on Friday published Rane's caricature again and said its depiction of the minister as a female was "pertinent and appropriate" and was in keeping with
Maharashtra's literary tradition of parody and satire.
The editorial in the Sena mouthpiece on Friday also congratulated Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for an apt description of Rane, an avowed Sena basher likening him to the new bride in Congress.
The simile chose by the Chief Minister to describe Rane's demeanour in Congress would not have been imagined by even eminent writers, it added.
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