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Hindustan Times West UP
|April 21, 2025
Thackeray clan spots an opportunity to resurrect political fortunes in linguistic nationalism
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The threat of electoral irrelevance seems to have forced the estranged Thackeray cousins, Raj and Uddhav, to explore working together. The reason cited is the decision of the Mahayuti government to make Hindi the compulsory third language in primary schools in Maharashtra. People in Maharashtra have a history of responding to linguistic nationalism — an underlying impulse of the Samyukta Maharashtra Movement was a political identity derived from solidarity centred on Marathi language.
This story is from the April 21, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times West UP.
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