'Their Hindutva Failed, Now Resorted To Language Issue To Divide People': Uddhav Thackeray Targets BJP Over Suicide Of Student

Marathi Language Row: Uddhav Thackeray, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief, on Saturday slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of trying to divide people based on language after the Hindutva issue failed.

The former Maharashtra chief minister, while addressing party workers in Mumbai, called the BJP a party that indulges in conspiracy and machinations. "Their balloon of Hindutva has burst," he alleged.

"The BJP is resorting to a linguistic divide. It is not our demand that people should be killed on the basis of language," said the Shiv Sena (Thackeray) chief.

"BJP and RSS are spreading the venom and blaming us," he alleged.

Language Raw Revives After Student's Suicide

Thackeray allegation comes in the context of an incident in which a 19-year-old student, Arnav Khaire, killed self in Thane district after a group of people allegedly assaulted him on a local train following an argument over not speaking in Marathi.

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The first-year science student hanged himself at his apartment in Kalyan East on Tuesday evening. Thackeray said no language should do injustice to another.

Student Thrashed Over Language Row On Local Train

Earlier, Arnav committed suicide after a group of people allegedly assaulted him on a local train following an argument over not speaking in Marathi.

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Gete stated the teen's father has alleged that Arnav asked a passenger to move a little ahead in a crowded compartment, when the latter reprimanded him for not speaking in Marathi, and the matter escalated.

(With PTI inputs)