After Devgn, Sudeep banter; former Karnataka CMs insist Hindi not nationwide language

By PTI

BENGALURU: The pleasant dialog between Bollywood actor Ajay Devgn and Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep took a political flip with former Karnataka chief ministers Siddaramaiah and H D Kumaraswamy becoming a member of the controversy and insisting that Hindi is like every other language in India and never the nationwide language.

“Hindi was never & will never be our National Language. It is the duty of every Indian to respect linguistic diversity of our country. Each language has its own rich history for its people to be proud of. I am proud to be a Kannadiga!!” Congress stalwart Siddaramaiah tweeted.

Hindi was by no means & won’t ever be our National Language.

It is the obligation of each Indian to respect linguistic range of our Country.

Each language has its personal wealthy historical past for its folks to be pleased with.

I’m proud to be a Kannadiga!! https://t.co/SmT2gsfkgO

— Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) April 27, 2022

The JD(S) second-in-command Kumaraswamy too aired a view just like Siddaramaiah and backed Sudeep.

“Actor @KicchaSudeep saying that Hindi is just not a National Language is right. There is nothing to search out fault in his assertion. Actor @ajaydevgn is just not solely hyper in nature but additionally reveals his ludicrous behaviour.

“According to him, Hindi can also be one of many languages like Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi.

“India is a garden of several languages. Land of multi-cultures. Let there be no attempts to disrupt this,” he added in his sequence of tweets on Thursday on the problem.

Just as a result of a big inhabitants speaks Hindi, it does not develop into a nationwide language, Kumaraswamy mentioned including, lower than 9 states, Kashmir to Kanyakumari, have Hindi as second or third language or not even that.

“This being situation what is the truth in Ajay Devgan’s statement? What do you mean by not to dub?” Kumaraswamy sought to know.

According to him, from the start, ‘Hindi’ based mostly political events on the Centre have been making efforts to destroy regional languages.

The Congress began ‘suppressing’ regional languages and that’s being continued by the BJP, he charged.

Bollywood actor Devgn and Sudeep engaged in a ‘brotherly argument’ on Twitter on the subject of whether or not Hindi is a nationwide language or not.

However, Sudeep clarified that the context during which he made the assertion was completely different from the way in which it was perceived and that it was not meant to impress, damage or begin a debate.

The set off for the argument was Sudeep’s assertion a number of days in the past throughout a perform in Bengaluru the place the who’s who of the Kannada movie trade celebrated the nationwide success of ‘KGF-2’ starring Yash.

When the compere of the occasion mentioned ‘KGF-2’ had a pan-India impact, Sudeep mentioned Hindi is not any extra a nationwide language