During the oath-taking ceremony today on the first day of the state Assembly’s inaugural session post the election of the new government, MNS MLA Ramesh Banjle snatched the mike as SP legislator Abu Azmi began reading the oath in Hindi. The tussle did not end there with other MNS legislators joining in and shouting slogans against Azmi. Ram Kadam and Shishir Kunde even exchanged blows with Azmi, with Kadam seen live on television slapping and hitting him on the chest and shoulders. Was he doing any crime against India? Yes definitely - he was favouring the most common language of India "Hindi", irrespective of the threat given by the MNS chief Raj Thakrey to take the oath in Marathi. Are we living in a banana republic? Who is he to give the instruction to the people to choose their language?
