“Hindi Domination”, Says DMK MP Kanimozhi, Writes To Ayush Ministry

Chennai:

DMK MP Kanimozhi has hit out at reviews that Ayush Ministry Secretary Rajesh Kotecha requested non-Hindi talking yoga lecturers and scientific practitioners to go out a central govt webinar if they didn’t talk or perceive Hindi.

Ms Kanimozhi, who previous this month mentioned it used to be “shameful” to equate knowledge of Hindi with nationalism and known as out an example of language bias at an airport, mentioned the alleged incident used to be “extremely condemnable” and wrote to Ayush Minister Shripad Naik to call for an inquiry into the subject.

In her letter to the Ayush Minister, Ms Kanimozhi started by way of wishing Mr Naik a rapid restoration from coronavirus; previous this month he was the fifth union minister to be infected by way of the virus.

Ms Kanimozhi then went directly to remind Mr Naik about “the promise made by way of then Top Minister Jawaharlal Nehru… at the ground of the Lok Sabha that so long as non-Hindi talking states require English as an affiliate language, it’ll proceed…”.

“I beg you to reserve an inquiry… and take motion in opposition to all officers who’ve acted in a fashion discriminating (in opposition to) our fellow voters at the foundation of language,” she wrote.

She requested that each one officers of the ministry be directed to behavior all conferences in English, with translations to be made in Hindi anyplace and each time wanted.

My letter to the Honorable Union Minister @shripadynaik at the reported hindi imposition.#StopHindiImpositionpic.twitter.com/Wzlib2f9fl

— Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) (@KanimozhiDMK) August 22, 2020

She additionally posted a sequence of tweets at the incident.

“The remark of Secretary of the Union Ministry of Ayush Vaidya, Rajesh Kotecha, that non-Hindi talking contributors may just depart all the way through a ministry coaching consultation, speaks volumes concerning the Hindi domination being imposed. That is extremely condemnable,” she mentioned in one in every of her tweets.

“The federal government will have to position the Secretary beneath suspension and start up suitable disciplinary lawsuits. How lengthy is this perspective of except non-Hindi audio system to be tolerated?” Ms Kanimozhi, who had previous requested “how finding out Hindi will make one an Indian”, added.

Executive will have to position the Secretary beneath suspension and start up suitable disciplinary lawsuits. How lengthy is this perspective of except non Hindi audio system to be tolerated ?

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— Kanimozhi (கனிமொழி) (@KanimozhiDMK) August 22, 2020

The Lok Sabha MP from Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi then repeated her tweets in Tamil. 

Mr Kotecha, in the meantime, used to be quoted by way of The Hindu as claiming the video of his feedback have been manipulated. Consistent with the file, Mr Kotecha mentioned his speech have been disrupted by way of “hooligans”.

The file additionally quoted programme contributors as announcing they’d attempted to provide an explanation for the language drawback , however have been instructed that they (the audio system) weren’t fluent in every other language.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan, who introduced his birthday celebration – Makal Needhi Maiam – forward of closing yr’s Lok Sabha polls, additionally spoke up on politics over language, which is a delicate matter within the southern states.

“Do not fail to remember that is the federal government of India, no longer a Hindi govt. It’s the govt’s duty to serve as in a language all perceive,” he mentioned, whilst additionally taking a swipe at docs who apply “our medication with out working out Tamil”.

“It’s magnanimous of our docs not to ask how Ayush officers would perceive our medication with out working out Tamil,” the actor, who has starred in different vastly a success Tamil and Hindi movies, mentioned.

Language has at all times been an emotive factor in Tamil Nadu, the place the Nationwide Schooling Coverage (NEP) 2020, which proposes teaching in either the mother tongue or the regional language till Class 5, has been stirring up controversy.

Calling it imposition of Hindi, the state – the place the AIADMK, an best friend of the BJP, is in energy – has rejected the centre’s three-language components in colleges – two of which will have to be local.

The opposition, together with the DMK, has additionally adverse the NEP 2020 and has known as for a evaluation of the sweeping reforms it has proposed.

Within the 1960s, there used to be an enormous anti-Hindi agitation within the state after the Congress, which used to be in energy on the centre then, tried to make Hindi the reliable language.