As the country is observing Hindi Diwas on Thursday, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said Hindi has no competition with other Indian languages, and it will pave the way to make the latter stronger.
Taking to social media site X, Amit Shah said that the Hindi language played an unprecedented role in uniting the country during the difficult days of the independence movement. “Every indigenous language and dialect are treasure of our couture heritage. We can build an empowered nation only by empowering every language. I believe that Hindi will become a medium to empower and promote the regional languages. Hindi will pave the way to make regional languages stronger,” Amit Shah said in a video message posted on X. Talking about the significance of Hindi during the freedom struggle of the country, the union minister said that the language instilled a feeling of unity in a country divided into many languages and dialects. “Hindi, as a language of communication, played an important role in carrying forward the freedom struggle from East to West and North to South in the country. The movements for achieving ‘Swaraj’ and ‘Swabhasha’ were going on simultaneously in the country. Considering the important role of Hindi in the freedom movement and after independence, the architects of the Constitution had accepted Hindi as the official language on 14 September 1949,” he added. Shah said that all our Indian languages and dialects are our cultural heritage, which we have to carry with us. He also said that Hindi never competed with other Indian languages nor it will do so in future and expressed his belief that Hindi will become a medium to empower all the local languages. “All our Indian languages and dialects are our cultural heritage, which we have to carry with us,” he said, adding that Hindi never competed with any other Indian language nor it will do so in future.