On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Union Home Minister Amit Shah hailed Hindi and praised him for uniting the country. However, DMK’s TKS Elangovan and Udhayanidhi Stalin were quick to respond to the admiration for the language and condemned the Home Minister on Thursday for his comment.
On the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “Hindi is the name for uniting the diversity of languages of India, the largest democracy in the world. From the independence movement to the present day, Hindi has played an important role in uniting the country.”
His comment did not go down well with the DMK leaders. Therefore, he openly condemned the Union Home Minister for making this statement. He claimed that Hindi is spoken only in four or five states in India and therefore Amit Shah’s statement is ‘totally absurd’.
“I strongly condemn the statement of Union Home Minister Amit Shah claiming that Hindi is the unifying force of India and makes other regional languages stronger,” Stalin tweeted on X, formerly Twitter.
He also highlighted how each state has its own language and questioned the role of Hindi in merging and strengthening regional languages.
“Hindi is spoken only in four or five states in the country and therefore Amit Shah’s statement is completely absurd. It is just another version of imposing Hindi in the guise of generating livelihood. While we speak Tamil here, Kerala speaks Malayalam. Where does Hindi merge with us and empower us? Amit Shah should stop suppressing non-Hindi languages by calling them just regional languages,” he said in his X post.
“Amit Shah insults people who speak different languages,” said TKS Elangovan
Joining Stalin, DMK leader TKS Elangovan also slammed Amit Shah for his comments and accused the Union Home Minister of insulting the people who speak other languages. In his statement to ANI, the DMK leader claimed that only seven states speak Hindi and the rest of the states have their own languages.
Earlier in the day, Amit Shah had praised Hindi and said it played a crucial role in uniting the nation with different languages.