New Delhi: The Center and the Tamil Nadu government are face to face over the three language formula in the new education policy. Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin has clearly refused to implement Hindi as the third language. Not only this, Stalin had also recently replaced the rupee symbol with Tamil language in the budget document.
This entire incident is once again being seen as a traditional protest against Hindi in South India. However, the central government has clearly said that it is fully ready to discuss the issue. Meanwhile, a balanced stance is being seen from Andhra Pradesh of South India along with the support of Hindi. First Pawan Kalyan and now Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu have shown a different stance from the opposition regarding the language dispute.
Language is not for hatred: Naidu
Amidst this entire controversy, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday commented that the 'national language' will enable fluent conversation in Hindi in Delhi. The Chief Minister said that only those people are progressing around the world who study in their mother tongue.
Naidu said that language is only for communication. Knowledge will not come from language. Only those people who study in their mother tongue are excelling around the world. It is easy to learn (through mother tongue). He said that I am telling you this very clearly... language is not for hatred. Here (in Andhra Pradesh) the mother tongue is Telugu. Hindi is the national language and the international language is English.
Forcibly imposing a language or blindly opposing it, both do not help in achieving the objective of national and cultural unity in our India. Since Hindi has not been made compulsory in the National Education Policy 2020, spreading false rumours about its implementation is only an attempt to mislead the public.
Pawan Kalyan, Deputy CM Andhra Pradesh
He appealed that there is no need to do 'unnecessary politics over languages' and called for learning as many languages as possible.
Not opposing Hindi but opposing making it compulsory
Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan had recently said that neither imposing any language forcibly nor opposing it indiscriminately achieves national and cultural unity. The actor-turned-politician had clearly said that he has never opposed the Hindi language but he has only 'opposed making it compulsory'. According to Kalyan, under NEP 2020, students have the facility to learn any two Indian languages including a foreign language as well as their mother tongue. He had said that if they do not want to study Hindi, they can choose Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi or any other language of India.
