Asserting that Hindi is not the country’s national language, Karnataka Congress leaders on Friday accused the BJP of trying to unleash its agenda of “cultural terrorism” against non-Hindi speaking States.
Leader of the Opposition and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah, KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar, and former KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao took strong objection to Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on using Hindi as the medium of communication.
In a series of tweets, Mr. Siddaramaiah denied accepting Hindi as the “national language” and stressed that it would not be allowed. He further accused the Centre of forcing States to adopt Hindi as the medium of communication, underscoring that India should stand for cooperative federalism rather than “coercive federalism”.
