India, July 18 -- A day after a scuffle between supporters of two legislators in the Maharashtra Assembly, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Friday slammed the incident, saying "What has become of our Maharashtra?"

He also defending his supporters while calling them "Maharashtra soldiers", Thackeray said that they "raised their hands" against insult to the Marathi language.

"When my Maharashtra soldiers raise their hands for the Marathi language or against the insult of a Marathi person, where are those who pounce on us and our party now hiding?" Thackeray said in a post on X.

Supporters of BJP MLA Gopichand Padalkar and NCP (SP) MLA Jitendra Awhad came to blows in the lobby of the Maharashtra Assembly on Thursday...