English empowering not shameful, have to be taught to kids: Rahul

“In India, 97 per cent folks use one of many 22 constitutionally recognised languages as their mom tongue, 19,500 languages and dialects are used as mom tongues. That is the ‘unity in range’ of our nice nation. Amit Shah, PM Narendra Modi and gang won’t ever perceive this,” O’Brien mentioned.

His celebration colleague and fellow MP Sagarika Ghose took to X and mentioned Indians shouldn’t be ashamed of any language. “English is a hyperlink language throughout India, it is aspirational, confers a world benefit and information of English is demanded by hundreds of thousands. Indians shouldn’t be “ashamed” of any language,” she mentioned.

The 22 languages listed within the Eighth Schedule of the Structure are Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santhali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

In 1950, when the Structure was adopted, Article 343 declared that Hindi could be the official language and English would function a further official language for a interval not exceeding 15 years. The Official Languages Act, 1963 made a provision for the continuation of English as an official language alongside Hindi, coming into impact on 26 January 1965.

It says English ought to proceed for use for all of the official functions of the Union and for transaction of enterprise in Parliament. The Act additionally says English shall be used for functions of communication between the Union and a state which has not adopted Hindi as its official language.

Additionally on Friday, Kerala ministers R. Bindu and V. Sivankutty criticised Shah’s current reported remarks, claiming that they point out a “restrictive and narrow-minded” political view and are “condemnable”.