Kannadigas And South Indians Upset Over Center’s Imposition of Hindi; Create Uproar On Twitter

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Shrinag
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The New Education Policy 2019 submitted to the Modi government recently has created quite an uproar among the South Indians. Kannadigas are upset over the recommendation by the policy to make Hindi compulsory in Karnataka as well as in all the other non-Hindi speaking states. Tamil Nadu was the first S.Indian state to react to the policy as its politicians came out in the open speaking against the recommendation.

Kannadigas Take To Twitter To Protest

The Kannadigas instead are using the Twitter platform to protest against this new policy and have termed it as “imposition of Hindi.”  However, the Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has said that the policy is not final and that the decision is yet to be finalized and is awaiting feedback from the public.

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Javedekar further added, “The Narendra Modi-led BJP government has no intention of imposing any language on anybody and wants to promote all Indian languages.”

NEP has said that students from Hindi-speaking states will study English and Hindi along with any one of the modern languages that are spoken in other parts of the country. On the other hand, students from the non-Hindi speaking states will have to study Hindi along with their regional language and English.

The recommendation says that a student can change the language during his middle school term on the condition that he has achieved the expected proficiency level in all the three languages in modular board examinations during his secondary school term.   

Kannadigas Fuming On Social Media

The imposition of Hindi as one of the compulsory languages has not gone well with residents of Karnataka. Many of them are using the Twitter platform for voicing out their displeasure.   

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Check out some of the tweets that reveal the feelings of social media users from Karnataka:

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