‘I am Indian, I don’t speak Hindi’ T-shirt slogans against Hindi imposition go viral all i want to say I am an Indian. I speak Hindi. I don’t support its imposition on my COMPATRIOTS #stop hindi imposition While framing the Constitution, B R Ambedkar was plagued with confusion when it came to the language issue. Being a nationalist, he supported the linguistic reorganisation of states. In 1955, he reiterated that the danger of not re-organising states would be far greater than that of re-organising them. Yet, he firmly believed that a unified India, which emerged after a great struggle, should not be divided on the basis of language. Hence, he agreed to Article 343 which allowed the Union Government to use Hindi as the language of administrative transactions – “The Official Language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script”. However, he never declared Hindi as the “national language”. Instead, he declared all languages listed under the VIII Schedule of the Indian Constitution as equal. #stophind#imposition #againstOneNationOneLanguage
