BJP leader likens attacks on non-Marathi speakers to Pahalgam massacre

With municipal elections successful Mumbai approaching, the connection contented has taken centre signifier successful the state’s governmental discourse

BJP person and Maharashtra curate Ashish Shelar. Photo: X

BJP person and Maharashtra curate Ashish Shelar has drawn a arguable parallel betwixt attacks connected non-Marathi speaking migrants successful Maharashtra and the Pahalgam panic onslaught successful Jammu and Kashmir, wherever tourists were targeted based connected their religion.

“In Pahalgam, radical were killed connected the ground of their religion. And present successful Maharashtra, Hindus are being attacked lone due to the fact that of their language. What is the quality betwixt these two?” Shelar said, reacting to a viral video showing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) workers assaulting a Gujarati trader for not speaking Marathi.

With municipal elections successful Mumbai approaching, the connection contented has taken centre signifier successful the state’s governmental discourse. Parties similar the MNS person been accused of inciting unit against non-Marathi speakers.

On April 22, 25 tourists were changeable by terrorists successful Pahalgam, reportedly targeted for their religion.

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Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Government precocious scrapped the three-language policy, a determination opposed by MNS main Raj Thackeray and his relative Uddhav Thackeray, who claimed it was an effort to enforce Hindi. The duo celebrated the rollback astatine a July 5 rally successful Mumbai, projecting it arsenic a governmental triumph for Marathi identity.

Uddhav, erstwhile Chief Minister and present main of Shiv Sena (UBT), defended the Marathi connection campaigners, saying, “If a Marathi manus (person) is asking for justness and you telephone america goons, past yes, we are goons.”

Shelar deed back, accusing Uddhav of governmental opportunism. “Uddhav cannot unrecorded without power. He ditched the BJP erstwhile denied the Chief Minister’s station and aligned with the Congress-NCP. Now, helium is eyeing the BMC. For him, ideology, Marathi individuality and adjacent Maharashtra instrumentality a backseat,” Shelar said.

He added that the BJP would contention the upcoming section assemblage elections connected a development-focused agenda.