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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray said that Maharashtra is bigger than any politics and fight, and thus, he and Uddhav have come together.
MNS Chief Raj Thackeray (ANI image)
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Raj Thackeray shared the stage with his estranged cousin and Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray after 20 years on Saturday, as the duo decided to join hands. As Raj addressed the gathering, he launched a scathing attack at Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis saying the latter achieved what Balasaheb couldn’t, pointing to his reunion with Uddhav.
“Today, after twenty years, Uddhav and I are coming together on one platform, something Balasaheb couldn’t achieve, but Devendra Fadnavis has made possible," said Raj Thackeray.
“I had said in one of my interviews that my Maharashtra is bigger than any politics and fight. Today, after 20 years, Uddhav and I have come together. What Balasaheb could not do, Devendra Fadnavis did… The work of bringing both of us together," he added.
Speaking about the ongoing language row in Maharashtra, Raj clarified that he doesn’t have anything against Hindi, and he or his party never enforced Marathi on the Hindi-speaking population of the state. He then took a swipe at the ruling government led by CM Fadnavis and said that they “started with the experiment of imposing Hindi".
“I don’t have anything against Hindi, no language is bad. It takes a lot of effort to build a language. We Marathi people ruled over a lot of states during the Maratha Empire, but we never enforced Marathi on those parts. They started with the experiment of imposing Hindi over us and were trying to test if we would not have opposed it, they would have gone upto making Mumbai separate from Maharashtra," he said.
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