NEW DELHI: A day after celebrating government's rollback on "Hindi imposition," Shive Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday dismissed the controversy between Hindi vs Marathi in Maharashtra.
Thackeray claimed that that the controversy is only on "biased media" and the issue was of "burden of three languages" on students.
"I think this controversy is only on biased media or social media. Otherwise, there is no Hindi vs Marathi in Maharashtra. The controversy was just about the burden of three languages on students of Std 1 and why should the third language be Hindi?" Aaditya said.
"Several languages are spoken in Maharashtra, but we won't tolerate insult to our mother tongue in our own state. We won't tolerate imposition of any language," he added.
On Maharashtra minister drawing a parallel between the ongoing row and the Pahalgam attack, Aaditya said, "There is a lot of poison in BJP's mind when it comes to Maharashtra. Today, BJP has compared Maharashtra to the terrorists in Pahalgam incident - the terrorists whom the BJP could not catch or stop."
"It has been three months since the Pahalgam incident, but where did those terrorists go? Nobody knows if they fled to Pakistan or joined the BJP. But comparing them to Maharashtra shows the malice and poison that BJP has for the state," he added.
This comes a day after Uddahv Thackeray and Raj Thackeray held a "victory rally" in Mumbai after the government decided to retreat from ots decision to introduce three-language policy in Maharashtra schools, under New Education Policy .
Devendra Fadnavis government had issued a Government Resolution (GR) on April 16, making Hindi a compulsory third language for students in Classes 1 to 5 studying in English and Marathi medium schools.
The government also announced the formation of a committee under educationist Narendra Jadhav to suggest the way forward and oversee the implementation of the language policy.
The panel has been given three months to study the issue and prepare a report.
Meanwhile, the three-language policy has now snowballed into a "Marathi identity" crisis in the state, leading to multiple incidents of assault on those who speak Hindi by the workers of different political parties.
Thackeray claimed that that the controversy is only on "biased media" and the issue was of "burden of three languages" on students.
"I think this controversy is only on biased media or social media. Otherwise, there is no Hindi vs Marathi in Maharashtra. The controversy was just about the burden of three languages on students of Std 1 and why should the third language be Hindi?" Aaditya said.
"Several languages are spoken in Maharashtra, but we won't tolerate insult to our mother tongue in our own state. We won't tolerate imposition of any language," he added.
On Maharashtra minister drawing a parallel between the ongoing row and the Pahalgam attack, Aaditya said, "There is a lot of poison in BJP's mind when it comes to Maharashtra. Today, BJP has compared Maharashtra to the terrorists in Pahalgam incident - the terrorists whom the BJP could not catch or stop."
"It has been three months since the Pahalgam incident, but where did those terrorists go? Nobody knows if they fled to Pakistan or joined the BJP. But comparing them to Maharashtra shows the malice and poison that BJP has for the state," he added.
This comes a day after Uddahv Thackeray and Raj Thackeray held a "victory rally" in Mumbai after the government decided to retreat from ots decision to introduce three-language policy in Maharashtra schools, under New Education Policy .
Devendra Fadnavis government had issued a Government Resolution (GR) on April 16, making Hindi a compulsory third language for students in Classes 1 to 5 studying in English and Marathi medium schools.
The government also announced the formation of a committee under educationist Narendra Jadhav to suggest the way forward and oversee the implementation of the language policy.
The panel has been given three months to study the issue and prepare a report.
Meanwhile, the three-language policy has now snowballed into a "Marathi identity" crisis in the state, leading to multiple incidents of assault on those who speak Hindi by the workers of different political parties.
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