HINDI is the official language of India and, in the Atal Behari Vajpayee administration, Cabinet ministers and the bureaucracy vied with one another to show off their mastery of the language. Some even ventured into Hindi poetry but perhaps the less said about that the better. In the UPA administration, the situation is quite the opposite. When Baba Ramdev aide Acharya Balkrishna’s handwritten note in Hindi was presented on June 4 to the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), none of the members could read it. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh can read Urdu but not Hindi. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee can read Bengali but not Hindi. The question of Home Minister P Chidambaram being able to read Hindi just does not arise. Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah might have been able to read it but he never attends CCPA meetings. Finally, a bureaucrat was summoned to read the note.Mukherjee reportedly asked Chidambaram to tell the Department of Official Language under him to organize a crash course in Hindi for him and others in his Ministry. Pranabbabu joked that they were like the five blind men describing an elephant by touching various parts of its anatomy.
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