Chandra Arya: Canadian MP Chandra Arya’s speech in Kannada in Parliament earns him reward | World Information – Occasions of India

BENGALURU: A speech in Canada’s Parliament by a Canadian MP in his mom tongue Kannada has gone viral on the social media, incomes him reward for his love in direction of his native language.
Chandra Arya, a Member of Parliament from Nepean, hails from Dwaralu, a small village in Sira Taluk of Tumakuru district in Karnataka.
“I spoke in my mom tongue (first language) Kannada in Canadian parliament. This lovely language has (a) lengthy historical past and is spoken by about 50 million folks. That is the primary time Kannada is spoken in any parliament on the earth exterior of India,” Arya has tweeted with a minute-long video of his speech in Kannada.
His speech obtained a standing ovation from a few of his Parliament colleagues.

“Revered Speaker, I am pleased for having obtained a chance to talk in Kannada in Canada’s Parliament. It’s a proud second for five crore Kannadigas {that a} man born in Sira Taluk’s Dwaralu village in Tumkur (Tumakuru) District from an Indian state of Karnataka, has been elected as Member of Parliament in Canada has spoken in Kannada,” he stated in his Kannada speech.
Noting that Canada’s Kannadigas in 2018 had celebrated Kannada ‘Rajyotsava’ in Canada’s Parliament, he stated, “I need to finish my assertion with (a) few phrases of the tune written by RashtraKavi Kuvempu and sung by Natasaarvabhowma Dr Rajkumar-Elladaru Iru Enthadaru Iru, Endendigu Nee Kannadavaagiru (Wherever you keep, nonetheless you might be, at all times be a Kannadiga). Thank You Speaker.”
Son of retired Industrial Tax Assistant Commissioner Okay Govinda Iyer, Chandra Arya is a Liberal Celebration politician.
Appreciating Arya’s speech, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated he has unfold Kannada’s quintessence on the world stage.
“Heartfelt compliments to Chandra Arya for proving that nonetheless huge one could develop in his life, he ought to at all times bear in mind his roots. Elladaru Iru Enthadaru Iru, Endendigu Nee Kannadavaagiru,” he tweeted.
Minister for Massive and Medium-scale Industries Murugesh R Nirani stated, “It’s an absolute honour to see the language of our land, Kannada being spoken within the Canadian Parliament. It fills us all with immense delight.”
Karnataka Congress President D Okay Shivakumar stated, “It makes me pleased to see our nice Kannada language spoken within the Canadian parliament. A fantastic concept by Sri Chandra Arya. Kannadigas the world over should fly excessive the flag of our mom tongue.”
Arya had just lately urged the Canadian folks and the federal government to recognise the distinction between the ‘swastika’, an historic and auspicious image for Hindus and the twentieth century Nazi image ‘Hakenkreuz’, stating that there is no such thing as a similarity between the 2.