‘No Hindi vs Marathi’: Aaditya Thackeray plays down language row, accuses BJP of spreading ‘poison’

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray connected Sunday dismissed the ongoing connection enactment successful Maharashtra, saying determination is nary "Hindi vs Marathi successful Maharashtra" and slammed the BJP for comparing it to the Pahalgam panic attack.Speaking a time aft the authorities authorities rolled backmost its contentious three-language policy, Aaditya said, "This contention exists lone connected biased media oregon societal media. There is nary Hindi vs Marathi successful Maharashtra. The existent interest was the load of 3 languages connected modular 1 students. Why should the 3rd connection beryllium Hindi?"He asserted that portion Maharashtra accommodates respective languages, “we won't tolerate the insult of our parent lingua successful our ain state, nor the imposition of immoderate language.”

Responding to BJP person Ashish Shelar’s examination of attacks implicit the connection contented to the Pahalgam panic attack, Aaditya accused the enactment of harbouring animosity towards the state. "There is simply a batch of poison successful BJP's caput erstwhile it comes to Maharashtra. Today, BJP compared Maharashtra to the terrorists successful the Pahalgam incident, terrorists they could neither drawback nor stop,” helium said."It’s been 3 months since that attack.

No 1 knows whether the terrorists fled to Pakistan oregon joined BJP," helium added, calling the examination an illustration of BJP’s “malice.”

The contention erupted aft the Devendra Fadnavis-led authorities issued a GR connected April 16 nether the New Education Policy, mandating Hindi arsenic a compulsory 3rd connection for Classes 1 to 5 successful English and Marathi mean schools.After wide disapproval and governmental backlash, including from some Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, who held a associated rally connected Saturday, the authorities announced the enactment of a committee nether educationist Narendra Jadhav to re-evaluate the policy. The sheet has 3 months to taxable its recommendations.Meanwhile, the contented has led to sporadic unit successful the state, including assaults connected Hindi-speaking individuals by governmental workers, intensifying the statement implicit Marathi identity.