Stating that when constructive efforts are required to fulfil the unanimous expectations of various nationalities in India, hastily showing keenness on link language issue will result in wastage of time and scattering of attention, DMK President Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi on June 19 told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the desire and appeal of all well-wishers of the nation is that he should concentrate and work for carrying forward the economic development and social progress of the country.
In a statement under the heading ‘Caution required in Link Language issue’ on June 19, Kalaignar said,
“An English daily (The Economic Times) has published a news analysis on 17.6.2014 under the heading “Directive in line with preference of PM Narendra Modi- Home Ministry asks babus to use Hindi on Social Networking sites”. For the first time the Union Home Ministry has decided to issue a directive that the government officials should use only Hindi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chooses to speak only in Hindi in his diplomatic meetings with foreign leaders. As per his (Modi’s) preference, government officials should use only Hindi to post their comments on social networking sites. On 27.5.2014, the Union Home Ministry has issued the order for making the use of Hindi compulsory in social networking sites by the government and government officials. It is ordered that government employees and officials of all Ministries, Departments, Corporations or Banks, who have made official accounts on ‘Twitter’, ‘Facebook’, ‘Google’, ‘YouTube’ or ‘Blogs’ should use Hindi, or both Hindi and English but giving priority to Hindi. This directive must be brought to the notice of all government officials concerned and its implementation must be ensured. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been tweeting in Hindi, pointed out in the news analysis of the English daily.
Nobody can deny that this is the beginning of the action for imposing Hindi against the wish of one through a government order. The history has registered in detail the great uprising and agitations that arose when Hindi was made a compulsory subject in 1938 and at the time of announcement of the Hindi Official Language Act coming into force in 1965. The battle fields of language have not yet dried up.
Nobody has forgotten the warning of Mootharignar Rajaji telling “Article 17 of the Constitution- clause on official language- should be compulsorily thrown into the Arabian sea.” and “This is only an Act turning Tamil people, the good patriotic and intelligent Indian citizens, into separatists”.
During the debate on the motion of thanks for the President’s address in the Rajya Sabah on 4.3.1965, in the presence of the senior leader of the BJP and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Perarignar Anna explained so as to make all sections realise and accept saying, “Till the language issue is thoroughly studied and a satisfactory decision is reached, let English continue to be an official language; let English remain till all national languages become official languages; thereafter, let us leave it time for the opportunity of one of the Indian languages develop and become the link language”. Can this be forgotten?
As far as the DMK is concerned, besides accepting numerous loses for defending our mother tongue Tamil language, opposing Hindi imposition, it is also determined to continue to work on that path. We have been continuously urging that the assurance given by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that English would continue as Union official language till the non-Hindi speaking people wished for and Hindi would not be imposed on people speaking other languages. In his address to the joint session of Parliament in 2004, the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said that a study would be undertaken on making all Indian languages which were official languages in States as official languages at the Centre. Still, so far no effort has been taken for it. The Centre should bring the amendment required in the Official Languages Act so as to make all Indian languages which are official languages in States as official languages of the Centre. On that basis, Tamil language, the first language of Dravidian languages family with literary and cultural richness, should be made one of the Central official languages. This is the stand taken by the DMK for long.
Without treating all languages found in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution with the aim of preserving the unity and integrity of India, attempting to give preference and first place to one among them Hindi will be considered as the first stage of the attempt to make non-Hindi speaking Indian citizens as second class citizens. When constructive efforts are required to fulfil the unanimous expectations of various nationalities in India, hastily showing keenness on link language issue will result in wastage of time and scattering of attention. Hence it is the desire and appeal of all well-wishers of the nation is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should concentrate and work for carrying forward the economic development and social progress of the country”.
In a statement under the heading ‘Caution required in Link Language issue’ on June 19, Kalaignar said,
“An English daily (The Economic Times) has published a news analysis on 17.6.2014 under the heading “Directive in line with preference of PM Narendra Modi- Home Ministry asks babus to use Hindi on Social Networking sites”. For the first time the Union Home Ministry has decided to issue a directive that the government officials should use only Hindi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chooses to speak only in Hindi in his diplomatic meetings with foreign leaders. As per his (Modi’s) preference, government officials should use only Hindi to post their comments on social networking sites. On 27.5.2014, the Union Home Ministry has issued the order for making the use of Hindi compulsory in social networking sites by the government and government officials. It is ordered that government employees and officials of all Ministries, Departments, Corporations or Banks, who have made official accounts on ‘Twitter’, ‘Facebook’, ‘Google’, ‘YouTube’ or ‘Blogs’ should use Hindi, or both Hindi and English but giving priority to Hindi. This directive must be brought to the notice of all government officials concerned and its implementation must be ensured. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been tweeting in Hindi, pointed out in the news analysis of the English daily.
Nobody can deny that this is the beginning of the action for imposing Hindi against the wish of one through a government order. The history has registered in detail the great uprising and agitations that arose when Hindi was made a compulsory subject in 1938 and at the time of announcement of the Hindi Official Language Act coming into force in 1965. The battle fields of language have not yet dried up.
Nobody has forgotten the warning of Mootharignar Rajaji telling “Article 17 of the Constitution- clause on official language- should be compulsorily thrown into the Arabian sea.” and “This is only an Act turning Tamil people, the good patriotic and intelligent Indian citizens, into separatists”.
During the debate on the motion of thanks for the President’s address in the Rajya Sabah on 4.3.1965, in the presence of the senior leader of the BJP and former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Perarignar Anna explained so as to make all sections realise and accept saying, “Till the language issue is thoroughly studied and a satisfactory decision is reached, let English continue to be an official language; let English remain till all national languages become official languages; thereafter, let us leave it time for the opportunity of one of the Indian languages develop and become the link language”. Can this be forgotten?
As far as the DMK is concerned, besides accepting numerous loses for defending our mother tongue Tamil language, opposing Hindi imposition, it is also determined to continue to work on that path. We have been continuously urging that the assurance given by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that English would continue as Union official language till the non-Hindi speaking people wished for and Hindi would not be imposed on people speaking other languages. In his address to the joint session of Parliament in 2004, the then President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said that a study would be undertaken on making all Indian languages which were official languages in States as official languages at the Centre. Still, so far no effort has been taken for it. The Centre should bring the amendment required in the Official Languages Act so as to make all Indian languages which are official languages in States as official languages of the Centre. On that basis, Tamil language, the first language of Dravidian languages family with literary and cultural richness, should be made one of the Central official languages. This is the stand taken by the DMK for long.
Without treating all languages found in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution with the aim of preserving the unity and integrity of India, attempting to give preference and first place to one among them Hindi will be considered as the first stage of the attempt to make non-Hindi speaking Indian citizens as second class citizens. When constructive efforts are required to fulfil the unanimous expectations of various nationalities in India, hastily showing keenness on link language issue will result in wastage of time and scattering of attention. Hence it is the desire and appeal of all well-wishers of the nation is that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should concentrate and work for carrying forward the economic development and social progress of the country”.
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