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Govt’s move to promote Hindi not an ‘insult’ to English: BJP

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New Delhi: BJP on Friday sought to defend the government’s move to promote Hindi, saying it seeks to bind the nation together and should not be construed as an “insult” to English.
“Hindi is the national language and is the heart of the country. Priority to Hindi cannot be (construed as) an insult to English. The government’s initiative for according priority to Hindi and regional languages is a welcome step,” BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.
He said Hindi is a mixture of different regional languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayali, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Urdu and other regional languages. It was unfortunate that despite Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal nehru, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Rammanohar Lohia’s efforts to propagate Hindi to connect the people of different parts of the country, the previous governments have not taken enough steps to promote it, Naqvi said.
“This time, the government is honestly doing everything to promote Hindi,” he said. “There is no conflict between Hindi and English. If somebody is opposing Hindi, it is not the right thing because they have to understand that Hindi and other regional languages have not got their proper right in the past,” Naqvi said. (PTI)

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