The simmering Hindi-Marathi language row in Maharashtra escalated on Friday as Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray issued a fiery retort to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s controversial “patak patak ke maarenge” (we’ll thrash you mercilessly) comment, stating he did not respect the Marathi neighborhood.
Talking at a rally in Mira Bhayandar, Thackeray dared Dubey to go to Mumbai, warning, “A BJP MP mentioned, ‘Marathi logon ko hum yahan pe patak patak ke maarenge’… You come to Mumbai. Mumbai ke samundar mein dubo dubo ke maarenge” (we’ll drown you within the Mumbai sea).
The MNS chief acknowledged that he is not going to decide on points regarding Marathi language and the Maharashtra individuals. He additional acknowledged that those that reside in Maharashtra ought to “study Marathi as quickly as doable”.
“I can’t make any compromises over Marathi and the individuals of Maharashtra. Those that stay in Maharashtra, to them I wish to say ‘study Marathi as quickly as doable, wherever you go, communicate Marathi’. In Karnataka, they battle for his or her language. Even a rickshaw puller is aware of that the Authorities is standing behind him over language. Equally, you be like a pillar and communicate in Marathi solely. That is what I’ve come to request all of you,” Thackeray mentioned.
‘Won’t hesitate to close down faculties if Hindi is imposed’
He added, “Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis had mentioned that they’d make Hindi language obligatory (in faculties)… Maharashtra CM is preventing for Hindi. Marathi must be made necessary in all faculties. However as an alternative, you might be talking about making Hindi necessary. Once they tried it as soon as, we had shut down outlets, and now we is not going to hesitate to close down faculties if Hindi is imposed (from Class 1 to five).”
The four-time MP Nishikant Dubey talked about about India’s variety, saying that each one its individuals have a deep love for his or her area and so they have a proper to shift from one place to the nation to a different.
“I’m saying this once more, I stand by my statements. This nation is various, and all its individuals have a robust affection for his or her area…If Maharashtra is part of this nation, then anybody could be settled wherever on this nation…However they beat up those that are Hindi language audio system…Even as we speak, solely 31-32% Marathi audio system stay in Mumbai…I settle for that Maharashtra has an enormous contribution to the financial system, I’ve big respect for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj,” Dubey asserted.
The Maharashtra Authorities has rescinded the federal government resolutions (GRs) associated to the three-language coverage, which had launched Hindi because the third language in main training. A committee will now be fashioned to re-examine the coverage.
Fadnavis acknowledged that the GRs issued in April regarding the three-language framework in main faculties have been nullified. The primary decision had mandated Hindi as a obligatory third language for college kids in Courses 1 to five, whereas the second GR had made it non-obligatory.
Uddhav and Raj Thackeray collectively led a ‘victory rally’ to mark the state authorities’s reversal of its choice.
