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Indian cricketer R Ashwin has also said that Hindi is not our national language. Ashwin said these things during a college program. Many prominent politicians have raised questions on giving the status of official language to Hindi.
Why did Ravichandran Ashwin say this?
New Delhi. Hindi is not our national language. Is the official language. We have known this for many years. But many times disputes arise over this. Now even Indian cricketer R Ashwin has said that Hindi is not our national language. Ashwin said these things during a college program. Recently Ashwin had announced his retirement from international cricket.
Ashwin said at an event, “The English students here should say ‘yes’ to me. Then Ashwin said, Tamil. When Ashwin said Tamil, there was a lot of noise from the crowd. When Ashwin said Hindi, there was no noise from the crowd. On this Ashwin said, yes, Hindi is an official language and not the national language.
Let us tell you that Hindi has been given the status of official language in the Constitution of India. This is not our national language. We all Indians celebrate 14 September as Hindi Day. Because on this day Hindi was given the status of official language by the Central Government. According to the 2011 census, 43.63 percent of India’s population speaks Hindi.
However, when Hindi got the status of official language, some big leaders accused it of demeaning their languages. For example, last year itself, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against celebrating Hindi Month in the state. He accused him of demeaning other languages.