Hindi instilled feeling of unity in a country divided by many languages, says Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said that Hindi instilled a feeling of unity in India that was divided into many languages and dialects.

Shah, in his message on Hindi Diwas, said that the language played a crucial role in carrying forward the freedom struggle across the country. He expressed confidence that Hindi will become a medium to empower all the local languages.

“Hindi has been a democratic language,” Shah said. “It has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules.”

हिंदी दिवस के अवसर पर मेरा संदेश… https://t.co/SVhPFu0Kra— Amit Shah (@AmitShah) September 14, 2023

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In the last year few years, Shah’s remarks on the Hindi language have led to political controversies.

In 2019, he had declared that it was essential for India to have one language. He had said that it was Hindi that would unite the country given that it was the country’s most-spoken language. In 2021, he had asked citizens to make use of Hindi along with their mother tongue for important work.

Last year, he had described Hindi as “the language of India” and said that it should be used by citizens from different states to communicate with each other. Hindi should be...

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