'Attempts To Impose Hindi Divisive In Character': TN CM Stalin To PM Modi Over Hindi Imposition

Imposing Hindi is against the federal principles of our constitution and will only harm the multi-lingual fabric of our Nation, CM Stalin said in a letter to PM Modi

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin.

Source : ANI

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the report submitted by the Parliamentary Committee to make Hindi mandatory and replace English in all Centre-run educational institutions like IITs, IIMs, AIIMS and Central universities. In a letter, Stalin wrote that recent attempts to impose Hindi are impractical and divisive in character putting non-Hindi-speaking people in a very disadvantageous position in many respects.

"Number of people speaking languages other than Hindi is numerically more than Hindi-speaking people in the Indian Union. I'm sure you'd appreciate that every language has its own speciality with its uniqueness and linguistic culture," Stalin wrote in a letter to PM Modi.

Requesting to not take forward the idea of imposing Hindi in various ways, he said, "Approach of Union government should be to include all languages, keeping in view scientific development and technological facilities and keep open avenues of progress in terms of education & employment equal to speakers of all languages."

He further said in a letter that imposing Hindi is against the federal principles of our constitution and will only harm the multi-lingual fabric of our Nation. "There are 22 languages including Tamil in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution of India. I consider that all those languages have equal rights," The Tamil Nadu CM wrote.

I request that the efforts to impose Hindi in various ways as recommended in the report may not be taken forward & glorious flame of unity of India may be held high forever: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin writes to PM on report submitted by Parliamentary Committee on Official Languages

— ANI (@ANI) October 16, 2022