Pandu Shivaji, an ordinary mill worker stood up from the audience and requested that he be allowed to come on to the stage and speak. As soon as he was allowed to do so, he went on a tirade against the three leaders sitting on the stage. “Borkar is a stooge of the Congress and his two associates here, Kubal and Mayekar have never been with us mill workers, reject them all and support the hammer and sickle” he had shouted to a rising roar among the audience.
The year was 1937, this scene had unfolded during a campaign rally in Mumbai’s Lalbagh area which was then an out and out communist stronghold. Keshav Dada Borkar who was the uncrowned king of Ghodapdeo (which is now a non-descript neighbourhood of Byculla but was once home to hundreds of textile mills and thousand
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always excellent and timely analysis. following him for 11 years now.
Wonderful narration of some historical facts. Educative even for a hardcore Maharashtrian. Good analysis on the political front.