Sena (UBT) workers assault auto driver over ‘anti-Marathi’ remarks

Video goes viral; Shiv Sena Virar main defends enactment action

A section functionary of the Shiv Sena (UBT) claimed the operator was taught a befitting lesson.

A video showing an auto-rickshaw operator being assaulted, allegedly by Shiv Sena (UBT) workers successful Virar, Maharashtra, for making ‘anti-Marathi’ remarks has gone viral connected societal media, fuelling further contention implicit the connection contented successful the state.

The constabulary said connected Sunday they had seen the viral clip but had not received immoderate ceremonial ailment and frankincense nary lawsuit has been registered yet.

A section functionary of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) claimed the operator was “taught a befitting lesson”, asserting that anyone insulting the Marathi connection oregon Maharashtra would person a effect successful “true Shiv Sena style”.

The driver, primitively from Uttar Pradesh, had allegedly made derogatory remarks against the Marathi language, the authorities and Marathi icons. A clip of those remarks surfaced online earlier, drafting wide condemnation online and from section governmental groups.

Sources said the remarks stemmed from an altercation 4 days agone betwixt the operator and a scooter rider implicit overtaking. When the scooter rider asked him to talk successful Marathi, the operator allegedly refused, stating helium would lone talk successful Hindi oregon Bhojpuri.

Bystanders reportedly recorded the incident. In the much caller video, filmed connected Saturday, the operator is seen being slapped by a radical of Shiv Sena (UBT) workers, including women, connected a engaged roadworthy adjacent Virar railway station. He is past made to publically apologise to a antheral and his sister—whom helium had allegedly misbehaved with earlier—as good arsenic to the authorities for “insulting” its linguistic and taste heritage.

Shiv Sena (UBT) Virar metropolis main Uday Jadhav, who was contiguous during the confrontation, aboriginal defended the actions of the enactment workers. “If anyone dares to insult the Marathi language, Maharashtra, oregon Marathi people, they volition get a reply successful the existent Shiv Sena style. We volition not beryllium silent,” Jadhav told reporters.

“The operator had the audacity to talk sick of Maharashtra and Marathi ‘manoos’. He was taught a befitting lesson. We made him apologise to the radical of the authorities and to those helium had offended,” helium added.

A elder constabulary authoritative confirmed that the incidental took spot connected Saturday. “We person seen the viral video and are verifying the facts, but arsenic of now, nary ailment has been received from either party,” the authoritative said.

The Hindi-Marathi connection enactment has intensified successful caller weeks, peculiarly successful the Mumbai metropolitan region, pursuing backlash implicit 2 Government Resolutions (GRs) promoting the three-language argumentation successful schools and mandating Hindi from Class I. The resolutions were aboriginal withdrawn by the Devendra Fadnavis-led government.