Do Maharashtrians hate Hindi?

The recent 'slap' episode in Maharashtra assembly, made Raj Thakre's MNS overnight hit in Maharashtrians. Abu Azmi, an elected MLA of Samajwadi Party insisted on taking oath in Hindi and MNS MLA manhandled him in the assembly. It started different debates in media..right from whether Hindi is a national language to whether it was a petty attempt to grab media attention.

But in various internet forums, when common people from Hindi belt reacted...they claimed that Maharashtrians hate Hindi and it is an attempt to dishonor Hindi.

Do maharashtrians really hate Hindi?

In ancient India, there were three dialects of Prakrit
1] shaurseni
2] magadhi
3] maharashtri

Maharashtri was prevalent in today's MP and Maharashtra.
Maharattha is a 'Apabhransh' of Maharashtri. 'Apabhransh' was a form
of language spoken by common people.
Marathi language evolved mainly from Maharashtri.

The people speaking this language were referred as Maharrthis or Marathis.

Marathis always were a marshal race mainly due to the tough terrain.
They have to fight hard to earn their livelihood.

Shivaji carved a nation out of these people. But his vision was never
narrow. Shivaji always talked about expelling foreigners from entire
India and talked about 'Hindavi Swaraj'. The Swaraj of Hindavi'
(locals of Hindustan) people. Therefore it spread all across the India
in future, but the then Marathi rulers could not spread nationhood
everywhere and Maratha State became a confederacy of some feuds.

Though this history gave Marathis a national vision. The Marathi
leaders in 19-20th century were never confined to Maharashtra.
Gokhale, Tilak, Hedgewar, Savarkar, Dange were pioneers of different
political streams in India.

Even when Indian cinema started, Hindi was adopted as its language.

So if someone thinks that Marathis hate Hindi because they are narrow
minded or paranoid, he needs 'Atma-shuddhi'.

Marathis do not hate Hindi. They watch Hindi news channel, hindi
movies. They speak in Hindi with non-marathis.

When Marathis support Raj Thakre, it is not because of the paranoia,
it is mainly because they hate the political culture which comes along
with North Indian vote bank. Marathis do not oppose 'chhat puja', but
can not see Lalu's, Mulayams making inroads in the Mumbai politics.
Therefore the support to Thakres is because they at least take up
their issues fearlessly.

Go back and check the history..Bal thakre took up the issue of jobs
for Marathis in 1969.. When it got solved, it took him 20 years to
rise in politics (that to with Hindutva)

Truth of RRB exams

Recently there was controversy in Maharashtra over exams held by Railway reservation board.
MNS and Shivsena tried to protest and stop this exam. They are being criticized by entire media.
Here is a truth. Every Punjabi, Gujarati and Maharashtrian should protest

In 1976, Central home ministry created guidelines based on which the India is divided into three lingual zones

* Group A (Hindi Zone): This includes All hindi speaking states like UP, Bihar, Rajastan, Madhya-pradesh, harayana, delhi etc.
* Group B: This includes all the developed non-hindi states. Maharastra, Gujarat and Punjab (chandigarh included)
* Group C: This includes rest of the states.

Everything was going fine with this division. Each zone was conducting exam in the local language and all the schedule of all the exams used to get published in the local newspapers.

But in 1988, there was a change made in this guideline. For Zone B, Hindi was made an alternate language, making people from Zone A eligible to write exams conducted in Zone B. Also it was made clear in this guideline that the advertise of these exams will get published in the local news papers of Zone A and not in Zone B. So people in Zone B always have to rely on employment news and not on the local newspaper. Most of the time Employment news goes out of circulation. So many people in Zone B miss the exams.

Shivsena is fighting for it since 1988. But no one listen to them. The national media is biased. Hence now Shivsena is coming on roads since last 3-4 years on this. This treatment is unjust for all people in Punjab, Gujrat and Maharashtra.
Everyone should protest against these regulations.