Amit Shah unanimously re-elected as the Chairperson of Parliamentary Committee on Official Language

Newdelhi:9/9/24:Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, has been unanimously re-elected as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language. After the formation of the new government, a committee meeting was held today in New Delhi to reconstitute the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language. During the meeting, Shri Amit Shah was elected as the committee chairperson. Shri Amit Shah has also served as the committee chairperson from 2019 to 2024. Union Home Minister expressed his gratitude to all the members of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language for unanimously re-electing him as the Chairperson.

In his address, Union Home Minister said that for the last 75 years, we have been working to promote the official language, but in the last 10 years there has been a slight change in its method. He said that KM Munshi and NG Iyengar had decided after consultation with many people that to accept Hindi as the official language and to promote it in government work, Hindi should not compete with any local language.

Shri Amit Shah said that in the last 10 years after Shri Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, the Committee has continuously tried to Hindi become a friend of all local languages ​​and not compete with anyone. He said that we should take care that the speakers of any local language do not have an inferiority complex and Hindi should be generally accepted as the language of work with consensus and agreement.

The Home Minister said that by giving new life to a language that is thousands of years old and increasing its acceptance, we must fulfill the dream of the visionaries of the freedom movement. He added that none of the freedom fighters like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Lokmanya Tilak, Mahatma Gandhi, Lala Lajpat Rai, C. Rajagopalachari, KM Munshi, and Sardar Patel, etc. came from the non-Hindi speaking states, but all of them had realized that our country should have a language which works as a medium of communication between one state. That is why, in the new education policy brought by Prime Minister Modi, we have emphasized that the primary education of the child should be in his mother tongue. When the child learns his mother tongue, he gets connected with many languages ​​of the country

.The newly appointed MPs from the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha were also present in today’s meeting. Officers from the Department of Official Language, led by Secretary Smt. Anshuli Arya, also attended the meeting, along with officials of the Parliamentary Committee