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

Chennai:

DMK MP Kanimozhi has hit out at experiences that Ayush Ministry Secretary Rajesh Kotecha requested non-Hindi talking yoga academics and medical practitioners to exit a central authorities webinar if they didn’t communicate or perceive Hindi.

Ms Kanimozhi, who earlier this month mentioned it was “shameful” to equate knowledge of Hindi with nationalism and referred to as out an occasion of language bias at an airport, mentioned the alleged incident involving the Ayush Ministry official was “extremely condemnable” and wrote to Ayush Minister Shripad Naik to demand an inquiry into the matter.

In her letter to the Ayush Minister, Ms Kanimozhi started by wishing Mr Naik a speedy restoration from coronavirus; earlier this month he grew to become the fifth union minister to be infected by the virus.

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

“I urge you to order an inquiry… and take motion in opposition to all officers who’ve acted in a way discriminating (in opposition to) our fellow residents on the idea of language,” she wrote.

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

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

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

She additionally posted a sequence of tweets on the incident.

“The assertion of Secretary of the Union Ministry of Ayush Vaidya, Rajesh Kotecha, that non-Hindi talking contributors might go away throughout a ministry coaching session, speaks volumes in regards to the Hindi domination being imposed. That is extremely condemnable,” she mentioned in one in all her tweets.

“The federal government ought to place the Secretary beneath suspension and provoke applicable disciplinary proceedings. How lengthy is that this angle of excluding non-Hindi audio system to be tolerated?” Ms Kanimozhi, who had earlier requested “how studying Hindi will make one an Indian”, added.

Govt ought to place the Secretary beneath suspension and provoke applicable disciplinary proceedings. How lengthy is that this angle of excluding 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, was quoted by The Hindu as claiming the video of his feedback had been manipulated. In keeping with the report, Mr Kotecha mentioned his speech had been disrupted by “hooligans”.

The report additionally quoted programme contributors as saying they’d tried to clarify the language downside , however have been advised that they (the audio system) weren’t fluent in every other language.

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

“Do not forget that is the federal government of India, not a Hindi authorities. It’s the authorities’s duty to operate in a language all perceive,” he mentioned, whereas additionally taking a swipe at medical doctors who follow “our medication with out understanding Tamil”.

“It’s magnanimous of our medical doctors to not ask how Ayush officers would perceive our medication with out understanding Tamil,” the actor, who has starred in a number of massively profitable Tamil and Hindi movies, mentioned.

Language has at all times been an emotive situation in Tamil Nadu, the place the Nationwide Training 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 ally of the BJP, is in energy – has rejected the centre’s three-language components in faculties – two of which ought to be native.

The opposition, together with the DMK, has additionally opposed the NEP 2020 and has referred to as for a overview of the sweeping reforms it has proposed.

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