Congress Hits Out at Amit Shah Over ‘BJP Stands for Promotion of All Languages’ Remark

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 5th May. The Congress on Friday slammed Home Minister Amit Shah’s reported remarks that the BJP supports the promotion of all languages, claiming that the Modi government spent Rs 640 crore on Sanskrit promotion but just Rs 3 crore on Kannada promotion.

In an interview with The Hindu, Shah stated that the BJP supports the promotion of all Indian languages and that the claim that it promotes Hindi at the cost of regional languages is “politically motivated.”

In response to the remarks, Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “The HM has claimed in an interview that the BJP stands for ‘promotion’ of all languages…Is that why the Modi Govt has spent Rs 640 cr to promote Sanskrit and JUST Rs 3 cr to support promotion of Kannada, one of the six classical languages of the country?”

 Is that why the man who insulted the great Kuvempu, who penned the state anthem, was made Chairman of the textbook revision committee by “the 40% Commission Sarkara” in Karnataka, he asked.

“Is that why a tradition has begun with the Forest Conservation (Amendment) Bill, 2022 to do away with English names for laws and replace them with Hindi names?” Ramesh said.

“I could go on and on, Mr. HM. But then you work for a man whose motto has been Asatyameva Jayate,” the Congress leader said.

Dismissing the claim that the BJP and the Union government were attempting to impose Hindi in the southern state, Shah stated in the interview that the Narendra Modi government has implemented systems under the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution to conduct various recruitment examinations in all languages.