Why marathis hate north indians

In Maharashtra's urban area, especially in Mumbai, North Indian voters are in a large number, who playa crucial role in every elections. After forming the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, Raj started 'anti-North Indian drive' and projected himself the as biggest saviour of the Marathi pride.

Initially, Raj got some success but in the few last five years, the graph of MNS has been continuously going down. Like his Uncle Bal Thackeray, who started his political journey on Marathi Manoos card, he too realised that you can catch the attention of local Marathi people through Marathi pride issues and vandalism but to sustain in politics for a long time you need have an inclusive policy.

Apart from this, Raj Thackeray also wanted to be part of the Sharad Pawar led Grand alliance in Maharashtra but due to his 'anti-North-Indian image', Congress and other parties have opposed his inclusion in the Mahagathabandhan.

But now, after Raj Thackeray's willingness to fill this shortcoming, Congress has welcomed his move to have a dialog with North Indians. Maharashtra has traditionally voted for national parties, be it the Congress and later, the BJP. However, while the Hindi versus Marathi debate shapes up, speakers of Marathi's many dialects rue that their regional and tribal tongues are on the decline.

Also Read : Tussle between politics, economics of language. Pratibha Shinde of the Lok Sangharsh Morcha, who works among tribals in Dhule and Nandurbar, said pre-primary education should be imparted in dialects.

This helped students gain confidence when they went to primary school as they could relate their education with local contexts and tools. Our demand that the state government may replicate this elsewhere is pending till date," she explained.

Shinde, however, added that imparting education only in local tongues was not possible as the three districts of Dhule, Jalgaon and Nandurbar alone had 22 tribal dialects.

This usually leads to the marginalisation of small languages as well as local varieties dialects of the language. But providing mass education in local dialects is often not practically feasible in a multilingual country. The world over, successful language and dialect maintenance programmes have been initiated by the communities themselves and run with government support," said Sonal Kulkarni- Joshi, Professor of Linguistics at the Deccan College, Pune, who is leading the first-ever comprehensive dialect survey of Marathi in independent India.

The survey will result in the preparation of dialect maps representing the geographical distribution of some selected linguistic features. Latest News. Share Via. Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter. Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin.

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