Actor and filmmaker Ajay Devgan started the debate when he tweeted about the comment made by Kannada actor Kiccha saying Hindi is not a national language. Kiccha posted a series of tweet replying to Aja devgan tweet.
There has been a debate going on in the social media about this topic. And now amid the national language row Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut weight in on the debate. Recently during a trailer launch of her upcoming film Dhaakad, a journalist ask her about the ongoing debate. Replying to a reporter she said there is no direct answer to this question. We are a country with a lot of diversity, multiple languages and cultures. Everybody has a birth right to take pride in their language and their culture. I am a Pahari, and I take pride in it.”
She went on to say that Sanskrit should be India’s national language. “If you ask me which language should be the national language, then I think it should be Sanskrit. Sanskrit is older than Kannada, Tamil, Gujarati or Hindi. All these languages have come from Sanskrit. Then why hasn’t Sanskrit become the national language and Hindi has? I don’t have an answer to this. These are the decisions taken at that time when the Constitution was written” she said.
She also stated that if we don’t consider Hindi as the National language, it is like defying the central government. She said, “When you deny Hindi, you are denying ‘Delhi ki sarkaar’. You don’t consider Delhi as the centre. Whatever is done in the construction, whatever acts are being passed, are being done in Delhi and they do it in Hindi.”
