THE RAJ FRANCHISEE- RAJ THACKERAY IS JUST A HOODLUM

Raj Thackeray is the latest Raj to achieve some degree of notoriety / fame in India. Despite what his supporters claim, though he is rather insignificant when it comes all things Raj. the biggest and the baddest of the Raj franchise is undoubtedly the British Raj. No Raj, even Thackeray, can hope to command the same amount of loathing and fear that was commanded by this all powerful RAJ. Then there is goonda Raj--- the rule of criminal gangsters in slum dwellings.

Next there is this idiomatic usage baap ka Raj---father's rule. This is probably the most used Raj of them all, since any fight you witness whether it is bus station or a parking lot is likely to have the idiom thrown in. Then there is Ram raj, which alludes to an ideal indian state, an anti-thesis of the baap ka Raj, which politicians refer to in the hope of getting votes to have the right to do Raj in the parliament. Plenty more in the Raj franchise stand head and shoulders above Raj Thackeray. To name but a few there's panchayat Raj, Raj bhavans ( large palatial bungalows, where famous political stooges are housed ), Yash Raj Films, which has more fan following among the youth than any other Raj. Given the head-start and the brand equity that many of these Raj franchisees have on him, it will take a lot more than beating up a few north indians for this Thackeray to become a force in the world of Raj. That Raj Thackeray is no more than a wannabe is best summed up in the words of another famous Raj, Raj Kumar who once drawled " Jaani, kauva jitna bhi uper ude, hans nahi ban sakta hai "