BENGALURU/ MYSURU: Finally breaking his silence over BJP national president
Amit Shah’s push for
Hindi as the national language,
Karnataka CM B S Yediyurappa on Monday said
Kannada was supreme as far as his state was concerned.
Amid growing clamour over Shah’s Hindi push, he took to social media 48 hours after Shah had stirred up the controversy to say: “All official languages in our country are equal.
However, as far as Karnataka is concerned, #Kannada is the principal language. We will never compromise its importance and are committed to promote Kannada and our state’s culture.”
“There is no question of imposing Hindi in Karnataka or replacing Kannada or the other local languages in South India. The three-language policy will continue with primacy to Kannada,” BJP state unit spokesman G Madhusudana said.
Opposing Shah’s call, former CM HD Kumaraswamy said: “Imposing Hindi as the national language in the state will be against the spirit of federalism.” Congress leader
Siddaramaiah said, “Amit Shah seems to be low on intellect to think he can impose Hindi on Indians.”