Shortly after the vandalism, Kedia again tagged Thackeray, saying that threatening him with hundreds of MNS workers would not make him a fluent Marathi speaker. He asserted that “love, not threats, brings people together.”“If I am not confident in my Marathi, and with such threats around, I fear that if I misspeak even a single word, it could lead to more violence,” he said.Kedia also appealed to Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for security. “I am getting calls from several police stations—Amboli, Cybercrime Bandra, SB1, among others—offering protection, but in that pretext, they are asking for my location. This seems like a dirty operation, baying for my blood. Kindly protect me,” he urged.Meanwhile, MNS chief Raj Thackeray cautioned his party workers not to attack anyone unnecessarily. “But do give them the prasad if they refuse to learn Marathi despite humble requests, while staying and earning in Mumbai and Maharashtra. The party workers should not shoot videos while attacking anyone,” he said.The incident comes amid the ongoing Marathi versus non-Marathi row in Maharashtra. On Friday, Deputy CM Fadnavis said the state government would not tolerate “hooliganism in the name of language.”
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