Tamil Nadu minister Udhaynidhi Stalin condemned Union Home Minister Amit Shah on glorifying Hindi on the occasion of Hindi Divas
Shah, on his message regarding Hindi Divas, said that Hindi unites the diversity of languages in the world's largest democracy
He also said that Hindi has been a democratic language and it has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages
According to Shah, Hindi language has instilled a feeling of unity in a country divided into many languages and dialects
However, Shah’s statement did not go down well with DMK leader Stalin who slammed the former as making a ‘totally absurd statement’
“I strongly condemn the statement of Union Home Minister Amit Shah claiming that Hindi is the uniting force of India and it is empowering other regional languages,” Stalin said in a post on X
“Hindi is spoken only in four or five states in the Country and hence the statement of Amit Shah is totally absurd. It is only another version of imposing Hindi under the guise of generating livelihood,” he added
“While we are speaking Tamil here, Kerala speaks Malayalam. Where does Hindi merge with and empower us? Amit Shah should stop oppressing non-Hindi languages by calling them just regional languages. #StopHindiImposition,” he added
Hindi Divas holds special significance as it marks the adaptation of Hindi one of the official languages by the Constituent Assembly in the year 1949
On this day, the Constituent Assembly accepted Hindi written in Devanagari script as the official language of India