Mr. Raj,

Born and bought up in Maharashtra, Mumbai, I am a loyal Mumbaite at core. I have learnt Marathi in school and can also manage to convey any basic message in the same. But am definitely not comfortable in speaking it as fluently as my Rashtriya Bhasha Hindi and even English that has been the medium of my education.

The recent lingo and cultural war motivated by your party seems to be unreasonable. As long as one speaks and respects our national language, how does matter? If such vote-deriving tactics are resorted by old, silver headed, dhoti-cladded politicians then its kinda understandable. As that’s what their age and upbringing is pushing them to do. But for a well-educated, famed cartoonist like you, such a strategy seems to be a practice of cowardice in my belief.

Brother we have many more IMP, attention-seeking issues to tackle. Combating illiteracy and poverty, providing shelter to homeless and food to famine-stuck villages and not to forget the suicide committing farmers….all these are just the tip of the mountain of problems we need to focus on.

With young blood like you on the political platform, we expect Mumbai and Maharashtra to score as the most self-sufficient city and state. Let’s join hands together to strive to boast of high literacy rate, well-planned infra-structure and most booming corner on the western cost of India.

Grow over such silly language issues :)
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