Sthaniya Lokadhikar Samiti is a

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

affiliated organisation for the preservation of rights of employment for Maharashtrians in the

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n state of

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. The name of the organisation approximately translates to "Association for the Rights of Local Citizens". According to Patel, the ''Samiti'' was a front for the Shiv Sena to "ensure jobs for its youth in the government and banking sectors as well as... engineering and pharmaceutical units in the Thane - Belapur region"

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