Hindi is not National Language. Tamil Nadu CM.

 CHENNAI:  Hindi is  only  an official language and not  a  national language,  Chennai  Chief Minister  M.K. said. President  Stalin  on  Thursday reacted  to  an unpleasant  incident at  Goa's  Dabolim airport in  which  CISF personnel  allegedly directed  a woman engineer from Tamil Nadu to learn  Hindi,  the national language. 

  "Who will  tell them that Hindi  is  not the national  language?" asked  Stalin  in  a  message  to the  nation in  the  discharge  of  his  duties.  

 All languages  ​​should  be given  due respect and  honor  at airports, he said, condemning  how passengers were  intimidated by  CISF  personnel  who had also taken a  course  on the need for all Indians to learn Hindi.  did.  

  Youth Affairs  Minister  Udhayanidhi Stalin also condemned the incident in  a  message on X, pointing out that  CISF personnel  threatened a  woman who was  traveling  with  an infant.  CISF personnel  are  deployed to provide security and not to teach Hindi to others, he said.  

 

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 Hindi is not the national language, says Tamil Nadu CM 

 Deccan Chronicle.| G Babu Jayakumar & D Sekar 

 Published on: December 15, 2023 | Updated on: December 15, 2023 

 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.(Twitter) 

 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.(Twitter) 

 Chennai: Hindi is just an official language and not the national language, Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Thursday, reacting to the unsavoury incident at the Dabolim airport in Goa where a CISF personnel told a woman engineer from Tamil Nadu to learn Hindi stating that it was the national language. 

  Who would tell them that Hindi was not the national language, Stalin asked in his message on X, adding that India was a federal nation in which people spoke diverse languages and the CISF personnel should bear that in mind and be aware of the federal nature of the country while discharging their duties. 

  All languages should be given the due respect and honour at airports, he said, condemning the manner in which the woman passenger was intimidated by the CISF personnel, who had also taken a class on the need for all Indians to learn Hindi.  

 State Minister for Youth Affairs Udhayanidhi Stalin also condemned the incident in his message on X, pointing out that the CISF personnel had intimidated the woman who was travelling with a baby. CISF personnel were deployed to provide security and not to teach Hindi to others, he said.  advertisement  

 

 Language  laws are  part of  human rights and  the  federal  government should understand  this  and take action against  imposition of Hindi on  people  who speak other languages, he said, adding that  such incidents  should  not be  repeated. It added that the outbreak was unacceptable.  

 PMK founder S Ramadoss also demanded action against  CISF personnel who asked  women  to learn Hindi.  This  was  another case of  security  personnel  forgetting their duties and questioning political  leaders  and  members of parliament  about their knowledge of Hindi,  a phenomenon said to have happened repeatedly.  

  He wondered what authority a person  who  does  not even know the basic fact that Hindi  is  not the national language have to advise  people's  representatives,  doctors  and engineers on  which language to learn? .  

  He said  that  recent repeated lies by some Union government officials and Union ministers about  Hindi  being  the national language  had  given  CISF personnel  such an impression and  led them to act accordingly. In the past, many citizens faced similar humiliation  at various airports  across  the  country  for not knowing Hindi. DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi was  threatened at the  Chennai airport itself.