CHENNAI: Opposing the President’s approval for the Parliament committee recommendation of directing Union ministers who know Hindi to speak only in that language in Parliament, Leader of Opposition M.K. Stalin on Wednesday warned that the centre should not sow the seeds for another anti-Hindi agitation.
Charging the BJP government at the centre with trying to impose Hindi and convert the India into a ‘Hindi land’, he said the BJP government is trying to impose Hindi and Sanskrit whenever it gets such an opportunity.
Demanding that all the languages listed in the eighth schedule of the Constitution should be made the official languages of the country, he said imposition of Hindi is against the Constitution. The centre is giving priority to Hindi and trying to degrade people speaking the other languages as second grade citizens, Stalin charged. The central government is trying to impose Hindi from Parliament to schools, Stalin alleged. Stalin also said all the schemes launched by the Union government had been named in Hindi and the same word is used in other languages without translation.
