Hindi is not India's national language, will never let it happen: Siddaramaiah
Bengaluru, Apr 8: Asserting that Hindi is not India's national language, former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Friday accused the ruling BJP of trying to unleash its agenda of "cultural terrorism" against non-Hindi speaking states.
Taking offence to Union Home Minister Amit Shah's comment regarding the official language, the Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka assembly accused him of betraying the former's home state Gujarat and mother-tongue Gujarati for Hindi, for his political agenda.
Shah on Thursday said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages.
Presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee, Shah had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided that the medium of running the government is the official language and this will definitely increase the importance of Hindi.
"As a Kannadiga, I take strong offence to @HMOIndia @AmitShah's comment on Official language & medium of communication. Hindi is not our National Language & we will never let it to be," Siddaramaiah tweeted with the tagline "#IndiaAgainstHindiImposition"
Stating that linguistic diversity is the essence of our country and we will respect each other's sentiments, the former chief minister said pluralism is what has held our nation together and any attempt by the BJP to undo this will be met with strong opposition and retaliation.
"Imposing Hindi is a sign of coercive federalism rather than cooperative federalism. Myopic view of BJP regarding our languages needs to be corrected and their opinions are derived from pseudo-nationalists like Savarkar," Siddaramaiah added.
Pointing out that 70 per cent of the agenda of the Cabinet is prepared in Hindi, Shah at the committee meeting had said the time has now come to make the official language Hindi an important part of the unity of the country.
He, however, had said Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages.
Alleging that BJP is trying to unleash its agenda of cultural terrorism against non-Hindi speaking states, Siddaramaiah said the efforts of poets, authors, actors, and icons of Karnataka Ekikarana (unification) movement and others in strengthening the state shall be protected forever.
"It is time for the BJP to understand that more linguistic and cultural autonomy should be given to states. All-India exams have to be held in regional languages, NEP has to be reworked to avoid Hindi imposition and all major state languages should be official languages," he said.
"It is disgraceful on the part of Amit Shah to betray his mother state Gujarat and mother-tongue Gujarati for Hindi for his political agenda. I wonder how a person who betrays his motherland can ever work in the interest of India," he said, adding that Shah's roots are from where Mahatma Gandhi was born, but behaving like Savarkar".
Further noting that history clearly suggests that any attempt to impose Hindi in other states have not gone well, Siddaramaiah said: "We take pride in Kannada identity and we believe that Karnataka, as our poet laureate Kuvempu said, is the daughter of Bharata."
ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳು ಪರಸ್ಪರ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ಭಾಷೆಯಾಗಿ ಹಿಂದಿಯನ್ನು ಬಳಸಬೇಕೆಂದು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಗೃಹಸಚಿವ @AmitShah ಅವರು ಫರ್ಮಾನು ಹೊರಡಿಸಿರುವುದು ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಆಕ್ಷೇಪಾರ್ಹ ನಡವಳಿಕೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
ಒಬ್ಬ ಸ್ವಾಭಿಮಾನಿ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗನಾಗಿ ಈ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ತೀವ್ರವಾಗಿ ಖಂಡಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.
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ಹಿಂದಿ, ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್, ತಮಿಳು, ಮಲೆಯಾಳಿ, ಗುಜರಾತಿ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಯಾವ ಭಾಷೆಗೂ ನಾವು ವಿರೋಧಿಗಳಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೆ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಕನ್ನಡಕ್ಕೆ ಮೊದಲ ಸ್ಥಾನ. ಯಾವುದೇ ಒಂದು ಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನು ಹೇರಲು ಹೊರಟರೆ ಸಹಿಸಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯ ಇಲ್ಲ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷಾ ನಿಲುವು ಮತ್ತು ದೇಶ-ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳ ಸಂಬಂಧವನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಕವಿ ಕುವೆಂಪು ಅವರು ದಶಕಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆಯೇ ಸ್ಪಷ್ಟವಾಗಿ ವ್ಯಾಖ್ಯಾನಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
"ಜಯಭಾರತ ಜನನಿಯ ತನುಜಾತೆ, ಜಯ ಹೇ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಮಾತೆ' ಎನ್ನುವ ಕವಿ ನುಡಿಯೇ ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷಾ ಸಿದ್ಧಾಂತ.
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ಕೇಂದ್ರದಲ್ಲಿ @BJP4India ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬಂದ ದಿನದಿಂದ ಹಿಂದಿಯನ್ನು ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರಭಾಷೆ ಎನ್ನುವ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಂಬಿಸುವ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ, ರಾಜ್ಯ ಭಾಷೆಗಳನ್ನು ದಮನಿಸುವ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ ನಡೆಯುತ್ತಲೇ ಇದೆ. ಇದನ್ನು ಹಿಂದಿಯೇತರ ಭಾಷೆಗಳನ್ನಾಡುವ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳು ಕೂಡಿ ಪ್ರತಿಭಟಿಸುವ ಕಾಲ ಸನ್ನಿಹಿತವಾಗಿದೆ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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ಗುಜರಾತಿನಿಂದ ಬಂದಿರುವ @AmitShah ಅವರ ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆ ಗುಜರಾತಿ. ಇವರು ತಮ್ಮ ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆಯನ್ನೇ ಕಡೆಗಣಿಸಿ ಹಿಂದಿ ಭಾಷೆಯ ಗುಲಾಮಗಿರಿ ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ವಿಷಾದನೀಯ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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ಅಮಿತ್ ಶಾ ಅವರ ತವರು ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಮಣ್ಣಿನ ಮಗನಾದ ಮಹಾತ್ಮ ಗಾಂಧೀಜಿ ಬಹು ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ, ಬಹುಭಾಷೆಗಳ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಕರಾಗಿದ್ದರು. ಆದರೆ @AmitShah ಅವರಿಗೆ ಗಾಂಧೀಜಿಯವರಿಗಿಂತ ಏಕ ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ, ಏಕಭಾಷೆಯ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಕರಾದ ಸೂಡೊ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯವಾದಿ ಸಾವರ್ಕರ್ ಪ್ರಿಯರಾಗಿರುವುದು ದುರಂತ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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ತಮಿಳುನಾಡು, ಕೇರಳ, ಆಂಧ್ರಪ್ರದೇಶ, ಒಡಿಸ್ಸಾ, ಪಶ್ಚಿಮ ಬಂಗಾಳ ಮತ್ತು ಈಶಾನ್ಯ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳು ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ದೇಶದ ಬಹುತೇಕ ರಾಜ್ಯಗಳು ಹಿಂದಿಯನ್ನು ಅಧಿಕೃತ ಸಂಪರ್ಕಭಾಷೆಯಾಗಿ ಬಳಸುವುದಿಲ್ಲ. ಅವುಗಳ ಜೊತೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಿಂದಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವ್ಯವಹರಿಸಬೇಕೆನ್ನುವುದು ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಭಯೋತ್ಪಾದನೆಯಾಗಿದೆ.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಗೃಹಸಚಿವ @AmitShah ಅವರ ಹೇಳಿಕೆ ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯ ಆಶಯಗಳಿಗೆ ವಿರುದ್ಧವಾಗಿರುವುದು ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ, ಮಾತೃಭಾಷೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಮಾಡಿರುವ ಅವಮಾನವಾಗಿದೆ. ಅನಗತ್ಯ ಘರ್ಷಣೆಗೆ ಎಡೆಮಾಡಿಕೊಡುವ ಈ ಬೇಜವಾಬ್ದಾರಿ ಹೇಳಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಅಮಿತ್ ಶಾ ಅವರು ತಕ್ಷಣ ಹಿಂದೆಗೆದುಕೊಳ್ಳಬೇಕು.
— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 8, 2022
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NRI Kannadiga community should achieve greater accomplishments: Dr. Arathi Krishna
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