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Amit Shah Reaffirms Hindi as a Friend to India’s Diverse Languages

In his Golden Jubilee address at the Official Language Department’s New Delhi HQ, Shah spotlighted the rollout of competitive exams in 13 languages, urging citizens to embrace their mother tongues as a step toward shedding a ‘mentality of slavery.’

India’s founding fathers saw the opportunity in English proficiency and encouraged its use, without discriminating against local languages. (HT Photo)
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Union home minister Amit Shah said that everyone should get rid of “slave mentality” and until a person takes pride in his own language that person cannot be free from the mentality of slavery. (PTI)

Overview

  • Shah declared that Hindi cannot be an adversary to any Indian language, framing it as a unifying companion in place of past divisive uses.
  • He stressed that opposing foreign tongues is unnecessary and called for a collective insistence to glorify, speak and think in native languages to build cultural self‐esteem.
  • Competitive tests including JEE, NEET, CUET and CAPF constable recruitment now offer candidates a choice of 13 Indian languages, with 95% of CAPF aspirants opting for their mother tongue.
  • The Home Minister urged state governments to expand use of regional languages in official administration and to introduce medical and engineering courses in local tongues.
  • He highlighted the newly launched Bharatiya Bhasha Anubhag as a central translation hub designed to streamline multilingual governance across India.