Mumbai/IBNS, July 2 -- In an ugly face of the language row, some workers from Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have thrashed a shopkeeper in Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai for not speaking in regional language Marathi, media reports said.

The incident happened on Saturday evening.

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 shopkeeper which state he was working in, the shopkeeper responded, "Maharashtra".

When the protesters asked about the language spoken in Maharashtra, the shopkeeper said, "All languages are spoken here."

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