Mumbai (Maharahtra) [India], July 7 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray clarified that hi party i not againt the Hindi language but accued certain group of comparing Marathi people to terrorit and undermining Marathi identity.
He criticized them for failing to protect Hindu and iding with thoe who harm Marathi interet.
We are not againt the Hindi language... They are comparing Marathi people to the terrorit of Pahalgam, they are the real Marathi killer... They cannot ave Hindu either, they are iding with thoe who do injutice to Marathi... The original BJP, which had an alliance with Shiv Sena, ha been killed... We have come together, and thee people have been fuming ever ince, he aid.
Amid the political parring over Hindi impoition charge by the oppoition Maha Vika Aghadi (MVA) government, Maharahtra Miniter Ahih Shelar on Sunday compared the agony of the Pahalgam terror attack, where Hindu were killed in the name of religion, and thoe getting beaten up in the name of language.
He aid that thee incident were ditreing for him.
All thee incident caue pain, uffering, and mental ditre. In Pahalgam, they hot them after aking about their religion. And here, they beat up the innocent Hindu jut becaue of the language they peak. Such cae create a diturbance, Shelar aid.
Hi remark come after ome incident of violence and vandalim were reported in the tate amid the ongoing Hindi-Marathi controvery.
Five worker of Maharahtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were arreted in connection with the vandalim at entrepreneur Suhil Kedia office in Worli, police aid on Saturday. A cae ha been regitered againt them under Section 223, 189(2), 189(3), 190, 191(2), 191(3), and 125 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.
On Sunday, Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray lammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for comparing the Pahalgam terror attack to incident of violence in Maharahtra amid the ongoing language controvery, and aid that the ruling party hold a lot of poion in it mind toward the tate.
He further quetioned the ruling BJP in the centre over the delay in arreting the terrorit reponible for the Pahalgam terror attack.
There i a lot of poion in the BJP mind when it come to Maharahtra. Today, the BJP ha compared Maharahtra to the terrorit in the Pahalgam incident - the terrorit whom the BJP could not catch or top. It ha been three month ince the Pahalgam incident, but where did thoe terrorit go? Nobody know if they fled to Pakitan or joined the BJP. But comparing them to Maharahtra how the malice and poion that the BJP ha for the tate, Thackeray told reporter here. (ANI)