CPI slams CM's silence on Hindi issue
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, April 19 2022:
Communist Party of India (CPI), Manipur State Council (MSC) has censured chief minster N Biren and other ministers accompanying him in the two-day visit to New Delhi for not speaking to central government against imposition of Hindi as a compulsory subject in schools of Northeast states.
In a release, CPI MSC secretary L Sotinkumar pointed out that many student organisations, CSOs, opposition parties of the state and other North Eastern states along with Outer Manipur MP Dr Lorho S Pfoze have opposed and written to Union home minister Amit Shah for re-evaluating the latter's statement made at the meeting of 37th Parliamentary Official Language Committee on making Hindi as official language of communication between states and centre and compulsory learning of Hindi till class X in North Eastern states.
As such, the silence of chief minister Biren as well as his ministerial colleagues not asking for revocation of central government's decision on making Hindi compulsory while meeting the Prime Minister, the Union home minister and the defence minister was very unfortunate.
The state ministers' apparent lack of resolve to uphold the public sentiment is against the welfare of students of state both from hills and valley region, it asserted.