Tamil Nadu DMK MP Kanimozhi has hit out at options “being Indian” is linked to Hindi (File)
Chennai:
DMK MP Kanimozhi mentioned on Wednesday that equating information of Hindi with nationalism was “shameful” and expressed concern that it had already edged out languages in establishing one’s id.
The Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi additionally rubbished claims by H Raja, a BJP chief within the state, that regardless of her assertions on the contrary she was fluent in Hindi and served as a translator for the late former Deputy Prime Minister Chaudhary Devi Lal on his go to to the southern state.
“The issue is not about knowing Hindi or not. It is shameful (to say) I can be Indian only if I know Hindi,” Ms Kanimozhi, who’s the daughter of former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, advised reporters in Chennai this night, in accordance with information company PTI.
Politics over language, a delicate problem within the south, discovered a brand new flashpoint on Sunday, after Ms Kanimozhi mentioned an airport safety officer requested her if she was “an Indian” as a result of she mentioned she did not know Hindi.
Today on the airport a CISF officer requested me if “I am an Indian” when I requested her to talk to me in tamil or English as I didn’t know Hindi. I want to know from when being indian is the same as figuring out Hindi.#hindiimposition
— Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) (@KanimozhiDMK) August 9, 2020
“I would like to know from when being Indian is equal to knowing Hindi,” she tweeted after the expertise, with a number of political leaders, together with the Congress’s P Chidambaram (and his son Karti Chidambaram).
Outright ridiculous. Highly condemnable. A linguistic take a look at , what subsequent? @CISFHQrs ought to reply! https://t.co/D34IKrNLj6
— Karti P Chidambaram (@KartiPC) August 9, 2020
The following day H Raja claimed that she did, in truth, know Hindi.
“When former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal came to Tamil Nadu his speech in Hindi was translated into Tamil by Kanimozhi. So her claim… is a white lie,” Mr Raja’s tweet, which was written in English, learn.
The tweet raises many doubts. When the previous https://t.co/MHGGtFGcl3 Devilal got here to TN his speech in Hindi was translated into Tamil by Kanimozhi. So her declare that she didn’t know Hindi is a white lie. So @blsanthosh was proper in observing that the election continues to be distant. https://t.co/4V6d8YOPed
— H Raja (@HRajaBJP) August 10, 2020
Today Ms Kanimozhi hit again on the claims, reiterating she had by no means studied Hindi whereas in college.
“I did not translate Hindi for anyone, even English also I did not translate. How can I translate without knowing the language? In my school I learnt only Tamil and English. Even (after) staying in Delhi for many years I don’t know Hindi,” she was quoted by information company ANI.
“Many leaders also know that I don’t know Hindi. It’s not whether me or anyone knows Hindi or not. It’s how learning Hindi will make one an Indian… the thought that only if we follow one ideology, speak Hindi and follow one religion are we Indians. It is strongly condemnable,” she declared.
Language has at all times been an emotive problem in Tamil Nadu, the place the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which proposes instructing in both the mom tongue or the regional language until Class 5, has been stirring up controversy.
Calling it imposition of Hindi, the state – the place the AIADMK, an ally of the BJP, is in energy – has rejected the centre’s proposed implementation of a three-language components in faculties – two of which must be native. The opposition, together with the DMK, has additionally opposed the NEP 2020 and has referred to as for a overview of the sweeping reforms it has proposed.
In the 1960s, there was an enormous anti-Hindi agitation within the state after the Congress, which was in energy on the centre then, tried to make Hindi the official language.
With enter from ANI, PTI