Junior Maharashtra Home Minister Yogesh Kadam has spoken up after a Mumbai shopkeeper was attacked by goons from Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena – for not speaking Marathi.
But rather than condemn the attack Mr Kadam declared ‘action will be taken’ against anyone who ‘disrespects Marathi’. He made no mention of punishing the MNS hooligans.
“Marathi will have to be spoken in Maharashtra,” the Shiv Sena MLA from Dapoli said, “If you do not know Marathi (and) your attitude is ‘we will not speak it at all’, that will not work. You can say ‘we will try to speak it’. If someone disrespects Marathi, action will be taken against them.”
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