Indian hardline organisation says Modi must protect jobs for sons of the soil. PHOTO: REUTERS
Shiv Sena in an editorial in Saamana said, “Pakistani artistes, technicians and TV people come to India to earn money, while touting words like friendship and ties. They snatch away livelihood of locals here."
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“Can India implement a policy like Trump and say that these Pakistanis won’t get a job here and also declare that those who give work to Pakistanis are the enemies of India,” the editorial read.
US president-elect Trump recently pledged to keep manufacturing jobs at home. According to The Indian Express, Trump said he would not allow Americans to be replaced by foreign employees.
“What someone like Trump…can do, our PM, who is known as courageous and knowledgeable, can certainly do,” Shiv Sena further said in the op-ed, claiming that Trump's move portrays he may have been inspired by Bal Thackeray on his slogan of "jobs in the US for sons of soil only".
Pakistani artists threatened to leave India
In September, a hardline Hindu political party in India demanded all Pakistani artists working there to leave the country, threatening to use force against them if they fail to comply. “We give all Pakistani artists working in India 48 hours to leave the country,” leader of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Umaj Khopkar, had said.
“If they don’t do so, we will use force and throw them out [of India],” added MNS General Secretary Shalini Thackeray. “We will interrupt their [film] shoots and won’t allow the movies they have acted in to be released,” she threatened.
This article originally appeared on The Indian Express.
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