(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 21 - The Indian government's plan to make Hindi the primary language taught in schools re-emerges periodically, "degrading" English into a secondary language.
The last step in this direction came recently from the Parliamentary Commission on the Official Language, chaired by the Minister of the Interior Amita Shah, who presented a report to the President of the Republic with the hope of replacing Hindi for English.
Among the first to rise up against the proposal was the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where the Legislative Assembly immediately adopted a resolution against "the imposition of Hindi" by the central government.
Tamil Nadu states that "the Commission's proposal is against the state languages and against the interests of the people who speak them".
In 1968, on the initiative of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the party in power, only Tamil and English are taught in state schools.
Local government leader MK Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Modi calling the government's intention to impose Hindi "impracticable and divisive. This project," Stalin says, is unacceptable for any state that respects and values its mother tongue ". (ANSA) .