The Maratha community does not subscribe to Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s views on the condition of Marathi speakers in the State, Karnataka Kshatriya Maratha Federation (KKMF) leaders said in Belagavi on Tuesday.
Reacting to a social media post by the Shiv Sena leader that indicated that there is a need for a “Belagavi Files” (like The Kashmiri Files), as the State Government is strangulating Marathi speakers in Belagavi, KKMF president V.S. Shyamsundar Gaikwad said that it is far from truth.
Earlier, Mr. Raut had shared a cartoon published by a local Marathi daily in which a policeman is seen strangulating Marathi speakers, while a man is shown stabbing another representing democracy. Seeing all this, a young Marathi speaker is running away from the scene. The cartoon carries the caption: “There is a need for ‘Belagavi Files’, as the condition of the Marathi speaker is no less terrifying’’.
