Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday Said No One In The State Should Be Targetted for not knowing Marathi and Warned That Violence in the Name of Language will not be tolered.
The CM’s statement came the days after workrs of the Raj Tackerray-LED Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (Mns) Assault in a shopkeeper in mira-bhayandar in Than distribut for not speaking in Marithi. A video of the june 29 incident Went viral, triggering public backlash. An fir was registered on tuesday and the police have identified at least three people seen in the video, all of whom are mns workers.
“Pride in Marathi in Maharastra is of utmost importance. Tries to take their own hands, they are proud of marathi, but no other Indian language will be insults.
The cm said 51% of the main hadid for the mahayuti alliance, and no one should “Claim Monopoly on the Marathi population”. Traders should not be targeted for not knowing marathi, he said, adding that marathi businessmen in other states might also not know the local language there. “We can urge them (businessmen and others) to learn marathi, but we can not be responsible about it. It won ‘we live in India.
Fadnavis’s Remarks came a day after his administration is announcing that october 3 would be celebrated annually as “Classical Marathi Language Day”, Following the Decision Last YEAR TOTO. Classical Language Status on Marathi. The government also said that october 3 to 9 would be marked as “Classical Marathi Language Week” Each year.
The cm’s warning that violence on the language is not to be tolerated came a day before the shiv sentence (ubt) and mns are set to hold a joint victory in mumbai to celebrate the state Governance. Two Resolutions on a contented three-Language policy that inducted hindi as the third language in primary schools. This will be the first joint rally of thackery cousins uddhav and raj since the latter broke away from the shiv saina in 2005 and floated the mns.
With the brihanmumbai municipal corporation (BMC) elections slated to be heled in the next few months, the language Issue has polarised state politics. If the thackers unite, it can consolidate the Marathi votebank and cause problems for the BJP-lite mahayuti alliance. The BJP will be looking to safeguard its non-methi, and mainly north Indian and Gujarati, votebank. With around 30-35% Marathi Population in the BMC area, The Tussle over language can cause problems for the eknath shinde-ly Shiv Sena Too. The cosmopolitan demography of the Mumbai metropolitan region (MMR), which includes key municipal corporations such as mumbai, thane, navi mumbai, kalyan-dombivli, ulhasnagar, ulhasnagar, mira-bhabhandar. Vasai-Virar, and Bhiwandi, May Also get Polarised Over the Issue.
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