Udhayanidhi criticises Amit Shah’s Hindi Diwas statement

In a fiery response to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent Hindi Diwas message, Tamilnadu’s State Sports Minister and DMK Youth Secretary, Udhayanidhi Stalin, did not mince words. Slamming Amit Shah’s assertion that Hindi is the “uniting force of India” and empowers regional languages, Udhayanidhi Stalin expressed strong condemnation. Udhayanidhi Stalin said, “I strongly condemn the statement of union home minister Amit Shah claiming that Hindi is the uniting force of India and it is empowering other regional languages.” In a message posted on his official handle on micro blogging site ‘X’, Udhayanidhi said, “Hindi is spoken only in four or five states in the country and hence the statement of Amit Shah is totally absurd. It is only another version of imposing Hindi under the guise of generating livelihood.” “While we are speaking Tamil here, Kerala speaks Malayalam. Where does Hindi merge with and empower us? Amit Shah should stop oppressing non-Hindi languages by calling them just regional languages, ” added the minister