Twitter users slam Nitesh Rane for veiled threat against 'Marathi hating Gujjus'

MLA Nitesh Rane once again made the news for his offensive remarks against the Gujarati community in Mumbai by tweeting that it was time to clean up "Marathi hating Gujjus", in an apparent effort to mark himself as the true Marathi maanoos.

However, the online community was not amused by his remarks, and expressed their discontent on the micro blogging website Twitter.

Here's what Nitesh said:

Wanna take part in Swacha Bharat abhiyan n start from mumbai!! Wanna start cleaning up all the Marathi hating gujjus from there once for all

— nitesh rane (@NiteshNRane) November 5, 2014

And here's how the online community reacted:

People like Nitesh Rane should be expelled from the party, even if it means losing more base...clean up once for all!

— Kavitha Reddy (@KavithaReddy16) November 6, 2014

@PriyaRaju Let him drive them out. What will happen then? Who will employ the workers?Gujjus will go to Gujarat. Where will they go?

— Siddarth (@Sid_dudheria) November 6, 2014

@Dev_Fadnavis Dear CM Sir,Why not arrest Nitesh Rane for his Cleansing Guj ppl frm MAH Tweet? Treat him like any other law breaking citizen

— ♕Swaroop Vaidya♕ (@swaroopvaidya78) November 6, 2014

'Want to clean Mumbai of Gujaratis who hate Marathis: Nitesh Rane' seriously? wow

— Prometheus Iapetus (@abhijitkadle) November 6, 2014

This is newly elected Congress MLA Nitesh Rane. Competing with MNS and Shiv Sena in regionalist hate propaganda. pic.twitter.com/x072aqSECH

— Truth Of Gujarat (@TruthOfGujarat) November 5, 2014

Divisive bottom-feeder alert. "@dna: Nitesh Rane says he wants to start cleaning up 'Marathi hating Gujjus' http://t.co/SJDfAMs5Vd”

— PriyaRaju (@PriyaRaju) November 6, 2014

Hope the senior Mr #Rane will teach his non-MP son some decency and basic civic sense to pay tolls henceforth. #Nitesh

— VijayThakkar (@vikingthakkar) December 6, 2013

@Babu_Bhaiyaa paresh bhai...tamme basically gujju che....??? #nitesh #rane is going clean Mumbai off gujus!! Comment!

— CitizenFirst (@BLO_BLAM) November 6, 2014

@Nitesh Rane: Who the hell are you to tell Gujju's to leave Mumbai ? We Gujjus are Proud to build businesses,... http://t.co/hGuoRtu6Az

— DarshJ (@Stupopsycho) August 2, 2013

RT if you wanna slap Nitesh Rane.

— Mr. Irresponsible (@BloodyKamina) November 6, 2014

suddenly Nitesh Rane sounds like a Shiv Sena or MNS fellow... what happened to the secular INC credentials and all that?

— Prometheus Iapetus (@abhijitkadle) November 6, 2014

What Raj Thackrey is for Biharis.. Nitesh Rane is for Gujaratis

— Ankur Singh (@BihariTweeter) November 6, 2014

Will the Congress party support him or maintain a distance instead?