Popular Marathi music composer and singer Kaushal Inamdar has criticised BJP Mumbai president Mangal Prabhat Lodha delivering a speech in Hindi on the ground of the Maharashtra legislative meeting.
Sharing a video clip posted by BJP Mumbai that includes Mangal Prabhat Lodha’s speech, Kaushal Inamdar wrote on Twitter, “You have to know the language of the area through which you might be elected. The problem raised by Mangal Prabhat Lodha is true however solely Marathi must be spoken within the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. For this, Marathi coaching courses must be began for Marathi MLAs. This applies to all events.”
मुंबई ज्यांच्यामुळे चालते (स्वछ राहते ) अशा @mybmc मधील सफाई कामगारांना हक्काचे घरे मिळणे गरजेचे आहे. त्यांना न्याय देण्याची आवश्यकता आहे.अशी मागणी भाजपा मुंबई अध्यक्ष @MPLodha यांनी नगर विकास मंत्री @mieknathshinde यांच्याकडे केली. pic.twitter.com/FQLYgCfwdK— BJP Mumbai (@BJP4Mumbai) March 24, 2022
In this video, Mangal Prabhat is speaking in the assembly about giving houses to the cleaning workers of Mumbai Municipal Corporation. Lodha demanded that Urban Development Minister Eknath Shinde grant city’s cleaning workers.
Mangal Prabhat Lodha’s speech in Hindi has received a lot of flak on Twitter too.
“Mr. MLA, why are you not speaking in Marathi?” wrote one consumer. “Are these MLAs from UP, Bihar? What is the issue for them to talk Marathi?” commented one other.
“Mumbai belongs to Marathi people, then BJP MLA should be able to speak at least 4-5 sentences in Marathi in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly,” remarked one other.
Mangal Prabhat’s speech has drawn criticism in opposition to the backdrop of Maharashtra authorities stressing its demand to accord classical language standing to Marathi.
Earlier, Subhash Desai, senior Maharashtra minister, additionally met with Union Culture Minister G Kishan Reddy and demanded that Marathi be granted classical language standing. He additional warned of a public agitation if Marathi was not given the standing of classical language.
Desai claimed that Reddy informed him that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have been in favour of granting Marathi classical language standing and {that a} choice was probably quickly.
The Maharashtra meeting unanimously handed a decision in 2020 recommending the Centre to grant Marathi classical language standing.
There are presently six Indian languages categorised as classical: Tamil was the primary to be designated as a classical language in 2004, adopted by Sanskrit in 2005, Kannada and Telugu in 2008, Malayalam in 2013, and Odia in 2014.
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