Recently, on November 9, Madurai MP S Venkatesan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) received a reply in Hindi to his letter from Union minister for Home Affairs, Nityanand Rai. The past few months saw repeated instances of Hindi being made obligatory or Tamil being neglected by the Union government and the ministers. The recent introduction of 15 minutes Sanskrit news bulletin in the regional channel ‘DD Podhigai’ of the Doordarshan has only aggravated the concerns among people. The accusation of neglecting Tamil, a classical language, is also being raised. The official reply from Union ministers in Hindi to the Members of Parliament (MP) from Tamil Nadu and condolence message in Hindi to Chief Minister Edappadi K Palanisawmi have further aggravated the sentiments against the BJP government with regards to use of Hindi. The political parties and people’s representatives from the state have raised their concerns over the Union government continuing to put aside regional languages by trying to promote Hindi as the link language.Īlso Read: Hindi Imposition and the Impending Death of Regional Languages Given the preference to Hindi, including the allocation of funds for its development, the federal set up of the country is also put under test. The central government and the party seem to follow the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) long-advocated policy of ‘One Nation, One Language’. The pace of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in imposing Hindi has been criticised for threatening the existence of regional languages.
Tamil Nadu being home to major anti-Hindi imposition struggles twice, first during 1937-40 and then in 1965, the present backlashes and opposition to the moves to impose Hindi is hardly a surprise.
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