‘Will Drown You In Sea’: Raj Thackeray Dares BJP’s Nishikant Dubey To Go to Mumbai

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Raj Thackeray threatened to drown Nishikant Dubey in Mumbai’s sea, stressing Marathi’s significance in Maharashtra.
The MNS chief additional stated that he won’t make any compromises over Marathi and the folks of Maharashtra. (Pictures: ANI)
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Friday hit again at Lok Sabha MP Nishikant Dubey over his “Patak Patak ke Maarenge (We are going to beat you up mercilessly)” comment, and stated he’ll drown the BJP chief in sea of Mumbai.
“A BJP MP stated, ‘Marathi logon ko hum yahan pe patak patak ke maarenge’…You come to Mumbai. Mumbai ke samundar mein dubo dubo ke maarenge,” Thackeray stated.
The MNS chief additional stated that he won’t make any compromises over Marathi and the folks of Maharashtra. “I cannot Those that stay in Maharashtra, to them I wish to say ‘be taught Marathi as quickly as attainable, wherever you go, converse Marathi’. In Karnataka, they struggle for his or her language. Even a rickshaw puller is aware of that the Authorities is standing behind him over language. Equally, you be like a pillar and converse in Marathi solely. That is what I’ve come to request all of you,” he added.
The Hindi-Marathi row was ignited within the state, particularly within the Mumbai metropolitan area, after opposition events just like the Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena took on the federal government over two GRs on the three-language coverage in faculties and educating of Hindi from Class I.
It escalated after MNS activists beat up some folks, together with a candy store proprietor within the Mumbai Metropolitan Area, for not talking Marathi.
Afterward July 5, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS head Raj Thackeray shared a stage in Mumbai for the reason for the Marathi language, and vowed to oppose the “imposition” of Hindi in Maharashtra after the state authorities rolled again the GRs on the introduction of Hindi as a 3rd language in major faculties.
On July 8, the MNS and different teams led a protest march in Mira Bhayandar space to defend Marathi ‘asmita’ (satisfaction) and counter the merchants’ agitation.

Saurabh Verma covers basic, nationwide and worldwide day-to-day information for News18.com as a Senior Sub-editor. He keenly observes politics. You possibly can comply with him on Twitter –twitter.com/saurabhkverma19
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