Madurai MP Venkatesan sends letter addressed to him in Hindi back to Centre

Madurai MP Venkatesan sends letter addressed to him in Hindi back to Centre

The Hindu

Terming the practice of sending letters in Hindi without English translation to elected representatives of non-Hindi speaking States as provocative and as a violation of the Official Language Implementation Act, Madurai MP, Su. Venkatesan, has sent a letter written in Hindi back to the Ministry of Culture. In a strongly-worded letter to the Minister of State (Independent Charge0, Prahlad Singh Patel, Ministry of Culture, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) MP said that “Officials of Ministry of Culture should have the sensitivity on the issues keeping in mind the multi-cultural and multi-lingual heritage of the country.”
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