Days after the Maharashtra government reversed its orders on the three-language policy in schools, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut announced on Tuesday that the party will turn its earlier planned protest rally on July 5 to "Marathi Vijay Diwas (Marathi Victory Day)".

He also reiterated that the BJP-led Mahayuti government must stop misleading citizens. The statement was made in response to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis's assertion that Raut's party chief Uddhav Thackeray had accepted the recommendations of the Dr Raghunath Mashelkar committee to implement a three-language policy from Class 1 to 12 and had established a committee for its implementation when he was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 2019 to 2022.

Further challenging the government, Raut called for the production and public burning of any government resolution (GR) purportedly issued under the previous Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government. "Let them produce that GR, and burn it if it exists," Raut told reporters. He also criticised the BJP for "forcibly imposing" Hindi on Marathi-speaking students.