Hindi unites diversity of Indian languages: Amit Shah

Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday said Hindi unites the diversity of languages in India and it has honoured different Indian as well as global languages and dialects.

In a message on 'Hindi Diwas', Shah said Hindi has never competed nor will compete with any other Indian language and that a strong country will emerge only by strengthening all its languages. "India has been a country of diverse languages. Hindi unites the diversity of languages in the world's largest democracy."

"Hindi has been a democratic language. It has honoured different Indian languages and dialects as well as many global languages and adopted their vocabularies, sentences and grammar rules," Shah said.


Slamming Shah for his remark that "Hindi unites", Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin posted on X: "This view is only an alternative form of a clamour for Hindi... that if it is learnt, a person can develop... In Tamil Nadu it is Tamil, and Malayalam is the language in neighbouring Kerala. How is Hindi uniting these two states? How it is empowering?"

Udhayanidhi Stalin said: "It is absurd to say that Hindi, spoken in four to five states, is uniting the whole of Indian Union."