MoS Ajay Mishra Teni calls for taking forward Hindi in government work
Ahead of the All India Conference on Official Language being held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni said that maximum government work should be done in Hindi. He said that taking inspiration from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, members of other departments under the leadership of Union Home Minister and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will also participate in the All India Official Language Conference.
“This conference is an attempt to remind everyone that we should keep our constitutional obligation paramount and do maximum government work in Hindi,” Mishra told reporters.
Mishra said that Hindi was recognized as a contact language in the freedom movement.
“Hindi became the main language of the independence movement to unite the whole country and give impetus to the movement. After the country got independence, the Constituent Assembly unanimously declared it the official language of India on September 14, 1949. It was famous by It was proposed by the scholar Gopalaswami Iyengar,” he said.
Mishra recently came into limelight after the Lakhimpur Kheri violence on October 3, in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.
Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra and his accomplice are in jail in this case. Ashish Mishra and his father have denied the allegation.
Opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress have been demanding the sacking of Ajay Mishra after the incident, saying that a fair investigation is not possible until he remains a minister.
(with inputs from PTI)
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