The rickshaw driver was confronted by a group of Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS supporters near Virar railway station.
Palghar:A migrant auto-rickshaw driver in Maharashtra's Palghar district was assaulted in full public view by supporters of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) after a prior confrontation over Marathi language had gone viral on social media.
A few days earlier, an argument between a man named Bhavesh Padolia, a migrant from Uttar Pradesh, and an auto-rickshaw driver -- himself a migrant -- at Virar station went viral on social media
The video showed the rickshaw driver declaring, "Main Hindi bolunga" ("I will speak in Hindi") repeatedly when asked why he was not speaking in Marathi. According to Mr Padolia's version of events, he had questioned the driver about his failure to use Marathi in public. The driver responded by saying he would rather speak in Hindi and Bhojpuri.
On Saturday, the rickshaw driver was confronted by a group of Shiv Sena (UBT) and MNS supporters near Virar railway station. Visuals from the site show the driver being slapped multiple times, including by women members of the groups. He was then compelled to apologise publicly to Mr Padolia, his sister, and to the state of Maharashtra, for what the attackers claimed was an insult to the Marathi language and cultural icons.
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