Hindi not in competition with other languages: Amit Shah
The Hindu
Hindi unites India's diversity of languages, has never competed with any other language, and is a medium to empower local languages. Hindi has played an important role in uniting India during freedom struggle and is now being used in govt. work, UN, and more. PM Modi has given due recognition to Indian languages. Dept. of Official Language is leveraging tech to enrich Indian languages.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday, September 14, 2023, said Hindi unites the diversity of languages in India and it has honoured different Indian as well as global languages and dialects.
In a message on the occasion of "Hindi Diwas", Shah also said Hindi has never competed nor will compete with any other Indian language and that a strong country will emerge only by strengthening all its languages.
The Union Home Minister expressed confidence that Hindi will become a medium to empower all the local languages.
"India has been a country of diverse languages. Hindi unites the diversity of languages in the world's largest democracy. "Hindi has been a democratic language. It has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules," Mr. Shah said.
Mr. Shah said the Hindi language has played an unprecedented role in uniting the country during the difficult days of freedom struggle and instilled a feeling of unity in a country that has several languages and dialects.
Hindi, as a language of communication, has played an important role in carrying forward the freedom struggle from east to west and from north to south, Shah said.
He said the movements for achieving "Swaraj" and "Swabhasha" were going on simultaneously in the country.
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