THE Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh leadership is
one of the biggest votaries for the propagation of Hindi language. Now that
they are de facto rulers of the country, they have moved softly but surely
towards propagating Hindi. It has been observed that hoardings and standees
outside the venue at government functions are being erected in Hindi language.
Government officials are conducting the proceedings in Hindi except for those
who are not from the Hindi belt. The proceedings of the 12th Civil Services day
on April 21 were conducted all in Hindi. Even Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha spoke
in Hindi at the function. All films shown at the function were in Hindi.
Furthermore, all central ministries and public undertakings have started
replying to RTIs in Hindi language. But there is an inherent dichotomoy, The
BJP top leadership has a fetish for English language. Look at the top
leadership starting from Arun Jaitley, Piyush Goyal, Nirmala Sitaraman, Smriti
Irani, Ravishanker Prasad, Suresh Prabhu, Anant Kumar, MJ Akbar, DV Sadanand
Gowda, Hardeep Singh Puri and Jayant Sinha; they all speak and write in English
and it is they who command the party’s policies. This only reflects the
diversity among politics and politicians. Even though the RSS is focused on
implementing the mother tongue (read Hindi), constraints of a different states
and regions are yet to be overcome.
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