Mumbai/IBNS, July 5 -- Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said Marathi should be respected but thuggery in the name of language won't be tolerated, in a stern message against the MNS workers' assault on a shopkeeper for not speaking in the regional language.

In a video which went viral on social media, some of the workers- identified as belonging to Raj Thackeray's MNS- were seen thrashing the 48-year-old shopkeeper, named Babulal Khimji Chaudhary, who struggled to respond to the onslaughts.

Reportedly, the workers questioned the shopkeeper over not speaking in Marathi. The shopkeeper tried to explain that he didn't know Marathi was compulsory and also he lacked knowledge in the language.

When the MNS workers asked the sh...