Udhayanidhi Stalin lashes out at Amit Shah for ‘Hindi unites’ comment, calling it ‘absurd’ – Firstpost

Slamming Union Home Minister Amit Shah for his remark that ‘Hindi unites’, Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday said it was “absurd” to claim that the Hindi, spoken in only four or five states, unites the entire Indian union.

Udhayanidhi said the Union minister had, as usual, shown his love for Hindi by commenting that only “Hindi unites people and gives power to regional languages”.

“This view is only an alternative form of demand for Hindi; that if this is learned, a person can develop,” the minister said in Tamil on social media platform X. “In Tamil Nadu, it is Tamil and Malayalam is the language of neighboring Kerala. How does Hindi unite these two states? How does this give power? ” He asked.

I strongly condemn Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement that Hindi is the unifying force of India and empowers other regional languages.

Hindi is spoken only in four or five states of the country and hence Amit Shah’s statement is completely absurd.…

– Oudhay (@Udhaystalin) September 14, 2023

He added: “It is absurd to say that Hindi, spoken in four or five states, unifies the entire Indian Union. »

“Amit Shah should stop relegating non-Hindi languages ​​to the status of provincial languages ​​and insulting them,” Udhayanidhi said in Tamil on X and added the hashtag #StopHindiImposition.

The Union Home Minister on Thursday said that Hindi unites the diverse languages ​​of India and has honored different Indian as well as global languages ​​and dialects.

In a message on the occasion of ‘Hindi Diwas’, Shah said that Hindi has never and will not compete with any other Indian language and a strong country would emerge only by strengthening all its languages. The Home Minister said he was confident that Hindi would become a means of empowering all local languages.