Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath counters MK Stalin's Hindi imposition charge, stating UP teaches Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and other languages.
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00:00Yogi Adityanath speaking on M.K. Stalin's anti-Hindi bias or anti-Hindi or the Hindi
00:05imposition charge. Here's what Yogi Adityanath says, who's the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
00:10Uttar Pradesh teaches Tamil language, Telugu language, Kannada language.
00:15We're also teaching the third language and it's not demeaning, Yogi Adityanath says.
00:20Does that make Uttar Pradesh then a smaller state? The Stalin language war is an election stunt.
00:27Will M.K. Stalin respond to this remark by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister? Yogi Adityanath says
00:33Stalin is harming the job prospects of the youth, clearly where they can learn languages,
00:38move to other states as well and be able to, when you learn a language for example like Hindi,
00:44you'll be able to move ahead around India, possibly better. He says that when we are also
00:51teaching these languages in Uttar Pradesh, what is the harm? It's the controversy due to their
00:56political interests. Let's listen in to what Yogi Adityanath says about Telugu, Tamil, Kannada
01:02in Uttar Pradesh.
01:26Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath says that the youth are attacking the employment of the youth.
01:39A very interesting comment there. My colleague Piyush Mishra joins me on that. Piyush,
02:06do you think M.K. Stalin would be responding to that because I primarily see it is M.K. Stalin
02:11on this Hindu imposition bias charge versus a state where Hindi with other languages also is
02:18spoken widely and that's Uttar Pradesh. He's confronting it. He's the one leading the charge
02:23against M.K. Stalin now. Well, we can expect Pooja very soon M.K. Stalin to respond to Yogi
02:30Adityanath because a couple of days back Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh had spoken on a language
02:35where he had said that whenever such parties feel that their votes are at risk they try to create a
02:42divide in the society and at the time M.K. Stalin had hit out at Yogi Adityanath saying that we need
02:48not to learn lessons from Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and again when Yogi Adityanath has spoken
02:54out on this entire language where he has said that we are the one who are teaching Tamil,
02:59Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and various other languages have become smaller. That's what
03:05Yogi Adityanath is now saying. On that, there's a first reaction also which has now come in from
03:11the Congress party leader from Congress and MP from Tamil Nadu Karthik Chidambaram has reacted
03:18on this asking why shouldn't the government of Uttar Pradesh give details about the teachers
03:24in Uttar Pradesh who are imparting Tamil language. He has also gone on to say that we cannot allow
03:30the imposition of Hindi. It's not compulsory in Tamil Nadu to read Hindi and we will not
03:36accept this. He is also saying that migrant workers who come to Tamil Nadu do not have any
03:42pride language about the Tamil culture, about the Tamil language and no imposition of Hindi should
03:48take place. So once again we are now seeing Pooja, this language now erupting where Yogi Adityanath
03:53is now leading the entire charge where he is once again attacking. Piyush, stay on with me because I
04:00want the viewer to listen in again to what this comment has been from Uttar Pradesh chief minister
04:06against Tamil Nadu chief minister about Hindi imposition. Let's listen in.
04:23Piyush, stay on with me.
04:53But the Congress party has jumped in already, even before the Dravida Manitra Kharagam or
05:15MK Stalin has responded to this because that primarily was the charge made by UP Chief
05:21Minister.
05:22Congress is attacking Yogi Adityanath.
05:23Congress asks, how many Tamil students are in Uttar Pradesh?
05:28Cannot force Hindi language in a state like Tamil Nadu.
05:31Migrant workers in Tamil Nadu are ignorant of the Tamil language, is what Kati Chidambaram
05:37has to say.
05:38Let's listen in to what is being said because this is, remember the Congress party jumping
05:42in first here, even though of course this is from a member of Parliament, from the Congress,
05:48from the state of Tamil Nadu.
05:49However, the charge from Yogi Adityanath also was that these are political narrow interests
05:56that are the reason that you hear these statements coming in from the southern states because
06:01in Uttar Pradesh as well, we are teaching Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, other languages.
06:07It helps in job prospects which are getting encouraged in the state while also we are
06:11stopping those possibly in the state of Tamil Nadu, for example, who can learn more languages
06:17and then expand their job interests, employment, livelihood interests as well.
06:27So that's what has been said, Kati Chidambaram of the Congress party has made out that comment
06:34and he said that why is this being mentioned by Yogi Adityanath because how many students
06:40really are there speaking Tamil language in Uttar Pradesh?
06:43In fact, I must add here, for those who may not know, it's in Haryana especially, for
06:48example, you'll hear a lot of Tamil being spoken including, if you remember, former
06:55Chief Minister M. L. Khattar used to also speak in the Tamil language.
06:59So this is something is happening and is language war becoming a predominant discourse right
07:04now for the country, especially is it making a north versus south divide?