Nishikant Dubey’s Explosive Remark Stokes Language Row: ‘If You Have Courage, Kill Urdu Speakers’
Mumbai (The Uttam Hindu): The controversy over Hindi language in Maharashtra is not taking the name of stopping and now it has become even more intense. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Nishikant Dubey has also jumped into this political battle. He has given an inflammatory statement by openly challenging those who attack Hindi speaking people, which has brought the state politics to a boil. This statement of Dubey has come at a time when there are reports of Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray coming together in protest against Hindi.
BJP MP from Godda, Nishikant Dubey, expressed his anger through a post on the social media platform 'X' (formerly Twitter). He wrote, "If those who kill Hindi-speaking people in Mumbai have the courage, then kill Urdu-speaking people in Maharashtra. Is a dog also a lion in your own house? Decide for yourself who is a dog and who is a lion." He has also posted this challenge in Marathi language, so that his message reaches the characters of Maharashtra politics directly.
This is not the first time that Nishikant Dubey has shown such bitterness on this issue. Earlier also he had compared the situation of Hindi speakers in Mumbai to that of Kashmiri Pandits. In one of his posts he had written, "What is the difference between Shiv Sena, Raj Thackeray of MNS and Pawar Sahab of NCP in Mumbai and Salauddin and Maulana Masood Azhar who drove Kashmiri Hindus away in Kashmir and Dawood Ibrahim who tortured Hindus in Mumbai?" He had alleged that on one hand atrocities took place in Kashmir due to not being a Hindu, while in Mumbai it is happening because of speaking Hindi.
It is noteworthy that other BJP leaders have also been targeting the Thackeray brothers on this issue. Maharashtra government minister Nitesh Rane had also challenged Uddhav and Raj Thackeray, accusing them of dividing the Hindu society. This new statement by Nishikant Dubey has added fuel to the fire of the language controversy in Maharashtra.