Conflict of Identities

Recently, I came across an article in local Marathi language newspaper, which is famous in India's financial Capital Mumbai, promoting a view that Marathi people should feel proud about their language. That article didn't stop there, it also expressed contempt towards non-Marathi people in Mumbai and the author feared that non-Marathi people in Mumbai want to separate it from the rest of the Maharashtra state. A few of Maharashtra's political parties are responsible for creating this issue of Marathi vs non-Marathi people in Mumbai.
As Mumbai is known as city of opportunities, people from all over the India come here and settle in search of jobs and as an effort to make a living. This of course creates competition in jobs and makes it harder for Marathi speaking people in Mumbai to get a job, and these parties provoke them to think that these people are "stealing our jobs", tell those people that if they vote for them, they would make policies to prefer Marathi speaking people for jobs. These parties called ShivSena and Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, if their meanings are literally translated to English they mean "Army of Shiva", (named after Shivaji, a great warrior of 17 th century) and "Maharashtra Reformation Army".  Whether the actions if these political "Armies" are in accordance with India's democratic morals would be a topic of controversy.
So I decided to write a reply to that article, in hope that it would be printed in newspaper's opinion page, but it probably wouldn't, and hence I'm posting the translated version of my letter to the blog. I feel it is so much relevant to what I post on the blog, because it is not just an issue limited to Mumbai, it is everywhere in the world. Americans feel that Mexicans are stealing there jobs, Australian feel threatened by Indians, parts of Europe suffer from anti-Semitism, the list is big. The problem is that these people speaking against immigrants have a very narrow point of view. They think as Americans or Australians or Mumbai-ites, they don't think as humans.
Here's my reply on this issue -
"It is natural for a Marathi speaking person to feel proud about Marathi language and culture. But, those are his personal emotions, and it is wrong to make policies based on people's emotions. Simply because they differ from person to person and they cannot be forced on to everybody. Therefore, if Maharashtra Government is making policies only beneficial for Marathi speaking population ( for eg. giving preference to Marathi speaking people for govt jobs) it should be condemned.
When you say that "Demand for independence of Scotland also arose from regional pride", You should also remember that people of Scotland denied independence knowing it would have negative impacts on their economy. They showed the maturity of choosing what's good for them over their national pride. And people of Maharashtra too, sent the Armies speaking language of pride and hatred towards others, and chose BJP, which speaks language of growth and development. The Armies should learn from their mistakes, otherwise they would be wiped off of face of Maharashtra in 2019 elections.
Indians pride about India is far more important than the pride of Marathi speaking people about Marathi. Hence, clashes between regional identities are not important, as long as we have identity as Indians first. And I would even go one step further to say that our first identity is that we are humans and then our countries and states and everything, but our first identity is the most important one.
I don't know what are people who have come to Mumbai from other parts of India are going to get by separating Mumbai from Maharashtra. There's absolutely no possibility of something like that to happen. Continuously thinking that someone is always conspiring against our language, culture, region or religion is not a sign of healthy society. Moreover, if Mumbai was separated from Maharashtra, it is still going to be in India. In such case, What worse things are going to happen? What difference would that make to India? And how is that going to benefit people coming to Mumbai from other states? And if it is going to benefit them, wouldn't it also benefit the same to Marathi people in born in Mumbai? If there are any such benefits limited to non-Marathis, then they would be an act of discrimination on basis of language which I'm already condemning .
Feeling pride about your identity as a particular language speaker is not backward thinking, but playing dirty politics over it and voting in such dirty politicians has definitely become history."
What do you think? Do you agree with me?