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Violent incidents relating to language have increased lately in Maharashtra. Several videos have surfaced, showing people getting assaulted for refusing to speak Marathi.
Man assaulted for speaking Marathi in Nanded (CNN-News18)
Violent incidents in the name of language are ceasing to die down, as yet another person was assaulted, allegedly by Raj Thackeray’s MNS workers, for not speaking Marathi.
A video of the incident, which occurred in Maharashtra’s Nanded, has surfaced, showing a Marathi-speaking man confronting a Hindi-speaker and asking him to converse in the local language.
A public toilet attendant at Nanded’s central bus stand charged women Rs 5 for using the facility. A Marathi man questioned this and recorded the exchange between the two.
As he insisted that the attendant speak in Marathi, the latter said, “I won’t speak in Marathi. What will you do?”
The man who shot the video also complained to the bus stand staff and then sent the footage to MNS workers, who, in turn, confronted the toilet attendant and slapped him.
They forced him to publicly apologise for refusing to speak Marathi.
The latest incident comes in a string of similar assaults in parts of Maharashtra, allegedly by MNS workers. The party has had a long-standing campaign of the use of Marathi in public spaces in Maharashtra.
The violence in the name of language has seen a significant rise in recent weeks. A shopkeeper in Mumbai was assaulted on camera for not speaking in Marathi.
An auto-rickshaw driver in Palghar was assaulted in public over his refusal to speak Marathi.
Earlier on July 1, a street food vendor was slapped by the MNS workers for refusing to speak in the language.
Ashesh Mallick is a Sub-Editor with over three years of experience in news writing, video production. He primarily covers national news, politics and global affairs. You can follow him on Twitter: @MallickAshes…Read More
Ashesh Mallick is a Sub-Editor with over three years of experience in news writing, video production. He primarily covers national news, politics and global affairs. You can follow him on Twitter: @MallickAshes… Read More
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