Overview
- Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy presided over the second Golden Jubilee event at GMC Balayogi Indoor Stadium alongside Harivansh, Nityanand Rai and Pawan Kalyan.
- Over 50 winners of nationwide cultural and sports competitions were felicitated in recognition of five decades of implementing India’s official language policy.
- Speakers portrayed Hindi as a bridge across India’s multilingual fabric and warned that political opposition to the language impedes national progress.
- Pawan Kalyan urged citizens to embrace Hindi as a means to strengthen regional identities and support future generations’ development.
- The Hyderabad ceremony followed the June 26 inauguration in Delhi and drew delegates from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry.