Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said Hindi has no competition with other Indian languages and will pave the way for strengthening those languages as the nation observed Hindi Diwas on Thursday. Amit Shah claimed on the social media platform X that the Hindi language had a singular impact on bringing the nation together during the trying times of the independence movement.
“Every indigenous language and dialect are treasure of our couture heritage. We can build an empowered nation only by empowering every language. I believe that Hindi will become a medium to empower and promote the regional languages. Hindi will pave the way to make regional languages stronger,” Amit Shah said in a video message posted on X.
The union minister explained the significance of Hindi during the country’s struggle for independence by claiming that the language fostered a sense of unity in a nation with numerous languages and dialects.
“Hindi, as a language of communication, played an important role in carrying forward the freedom struggle from East to West and North to South in the country. The movements for achieving ‘Swaraj’ and ‘Swabhasha’ were going on simultaneously in the country. Considering the important role of Hindi in the freedom movement and after independence, the architects of the Constitution had accepted Hindi as the official language on 14 September 1949,” he added.