Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Monday slammed the parliamentary panel recommendation to make Hindi the medium of instruction in technical and non-technical institutions, including IIT, IIM and central universities, across the country.
Reacting sharply to the development, Stalin said that it was an attempt to force another “language war” and accused the BJP of enforcing its idea of “One nation, One Language, One religion, One food and One culture. The attempt would damage the Indian Union, he warned.
The rigorous thrust by Union BJP government for #HindiImposition, negating the diversity of India is happening at an alarming pace.
The proposals made in the 11th volume of the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language are a direct onslaught on India's soul. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/Orry8qKshq
— M.K.Stalin (@mkstalin) October 10, 2022
He tweeted, “The rigorous thrust by the Union BJP government for Hindi imposition, negating the diversity of India is happening at an alarming pace. The proposals made in the 11th volume of the report of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language are a direct onslaught on India’s soul.”
The parliamentary committee, headed by Union home minister Amit Shah, has recommended the usage of Hindi as a medium of instruction in technical and non-technical institutions, including IITs in Hindi-speaking states and respective local languages in other parts of India, reported Hindustan Times.
Stalin demanded to know the need for such a report when people are insisting on adding more languages to the 22 official languages. “Why is it recommended to discontinue English language question papers in the Union recruitment examinations to give preference for Hindi?” the chief minister wrote.
Stalin said the parliamentary panel’s report recommended that English be replaced by Hindi as the medium of instruction in all central institutions, central universities and Kendra Vidyalayas.
He also accused the Narendra Modi government of continuously attempting to impose Hindi with utter disregard for the Constitution, stating that India’s ‘unity in diversity’ calls for treating all languages equally. He said, “We should strive to make all languages as the official languages of the Union government.”
In a subsequent tweet, Stalin wrote that imposing Hindi is against the integrity of India. He also warned that if proposals made by the parliamentary panel were implemented, the vast non-Hindi-speaking population will be made second-class citizens in their land, reported HT.
-IANS
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