A migrant auto-rickshaw driver was assaulted by Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS supporters after a video went viral of him declaring he would speak Hindi.
A migrant auto-rickshaw driver was assaulted in full public view in Maharashtra’s Palghar district by supporters of both the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), days after a heated language dispute went viral on social media.
The incident stems from an earlier confrontation at Virar railway station between Bhavesh Padolia, a migrant from Uttar Pradesh, and the same rickshaw driver, also a migrant. A video of the argument showed the driver firmly declaring, “Main Hindi bolunga” (“I will speak in Hindi”) when questioned about not speaking Marathi in public. According to Padolia, he had merely asked the driver why he wasn’t using Marathi, to which the driver insisted on speaking in Hindi and Bhojpuri instead.
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