Never Asked For Imposing Hindi Over Regional Languages, Amit Shah Over Hindi Row
Mumbai: Home Minister Amit Shah breaks his silence over Hindi row and clarifies that he had never asked for imposition of Hindi over other regional languages.
Saying that he only requested people to learn Hindi as a second language after the mother tongue, Shah said that he himself comes from a non-Hindi state.
He said, “I never asked to apply Hindi to other regional languages and requested to learn Hindi as a second language after only one mother tongue.”
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“I myself come from a non-Hindi state of Gujarat. If some people want to do politics, it’s their choice,” he further added.
On the occasion of Hindi Day on 14 September, the Home Minister had said that the Hindi language can unite the country and a language is needed for India so that foreign languages do not get a place.
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“The diversity of languages and dialects is the strength of our nation. But it is necessary for our nation to have a language so that foreign languages do not get a place. That is why our freedom fighters conceived Hindi as the official language, ”Shah said.
Many leaders opposed Amit Shah over Hindi Row, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had also slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his ‘one nation, one language’ call, saying “India’s many languages are not her weakness.”
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimee chief Asaduddin Owaisi slammed Home Minister Shah for his Hindi remark and said India is much bigger than ‘Hindi, Hindu, Hindutva’.
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