For the thackerry cousins, an opportunity in a common anti-hindi plank | WN24

Mridul

JUN 30, 2025 19:50 IST

First Published on: JUN 30, 2025 at 19:49 IST

Two-and-A-A-Half Years After It was formed, The Tripartite Coalition Government in Maharastra has collapsed. Ajit pawar has resigned as deputy chief minister and withouthdraw the ncp’s support to the government. A Few Hours Later, Chief Minister eknath resigned to shinde. With this, the shinde-fadnavis -jit pawar government has lost its majority, and the bjp is in a position to form the next government in maharastra. But Political Uncertainty Remains. Ajit Pawar Could Withdraw Support From The Government at any time. The mahayuti alliance, consisting of the BJP, the shinde sena and ajit’s ncp, won a large majority in the 2024 lok sabha elections, but the three parties are now wary of eastern.

The government fell without day of the union government notification of the decision of the central board of security education (CBSE) Mandating hindi as a compulsory subject in all csey schools in Maharashtra. This has become a major issue in the state. Shinde and Ajit Pawar Both Defended the Decision, but uddhav Tackerray Opposed It. In Maharastra, language is not a cultural issue alone – It is also a political and constitutional one. Language was the main plank of the samyukta maharastra movement, which south the form of a marathi-sappaking state with bombay as capital. When Maharastra was formed on May 1, 1960, afterwards of protest and the death of 106 protestors firing, Marathi was already a burning issue.

At that time, the centre had proposed the form of a bilingual bombay that would have marathi and Gujarati speeders. The proposal was opposed by all marathi groups and parties – including the communists, the Jan sangh and the congress. These developments, along with the three-language issues, may make it seem that language is becoming a political issue again. But in truth, the controversy over language never go away But the average citizen in maharashtra, language remains a fundamental concern.

The Next Bmc Electices May Becom a Flashpoint. While the BJP and the shinde sentence contest the upcoming BMC election together – is being special –uddhav Tackerray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) is trying to consolidate the Marathi vote. A recent votevibe survey of mumbaikars found that a majority of marathi voters still supported uddhav thakeray. This is also significant because the attempt to consolidate the marathi vote is not just an identity-based strategy-it also also a shift in class mobilisation. The idea of ​​a consolidated marathi identity is only a post-19990 phenomenon. In the pre-sliberalisation era, Marathi voters were divided into acrosa parties, according to class and ideology. To this end, uddhav has been talking about the neglect of the average mumbaikar in the new vision of mumbai being promoted by the BJP – which centres on real estate development and the redevelopme of Chawls.

Uddhav is also trying to reach out to marathi youth, not only in terms of culture, but also jobs and education. He is Emphasising Education in Marathi and Recruitment of Locals in Lower Bureaucracy – Issues that have longfected the Marathi Working Class. For uddhav, this is not just an electoral strategy. It is also a return to the original vision of the Shiv Sena-The party found by his father bal thakeray in 1966-which mobilised supportgorthani work class and lower-modulei in mumbai. But the difference is now that uddhav is also trying to reach out to marginalised casters with the marathi community. Only that would “maharashtra dharma” be served in the truce sense.

The author is Professor in the University of Mumbai