NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Saturday said Hindi must be made acceptable, flexible and conversational, and stressed on the need to promote it by strengthening all Indian regional languages and establishing their mutual congruence. Shah, while addressing the official language 's diamond jubilee celebrations and the 4th Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan here coinciding with Hindi Diwas , said Hindi and other local Indian languages should complement one another. "There cannot be any competition between Hindi and other Indian languages.
..Hindi is a friend of all Indian languages.
..Hindi must be promoted not through a struggle or force but through general acceptance," he insisted.
Stating that only mothers can preserve Indian languages, the home minister on Friday called upon parents to speak to their children exclusively in their mother-tongue. He underlined that Prime Minister Narendra Modi too has, through the new education policy , stressed on imparting primary education in a child's mother tongue. Shah said Hindi Diwas is the day to strengthen all the languages of India and to make the official language the connecting language of the country, so that "we can carry out the work of our country in our own languages".
At the event, the home minister released the 'Diamond Jubilee Special Issue' of the 'Rajbhasha Bharati' magazine, a commemorative postage stamp and a commemorative coin. He also presented the Rajbhasha Gaurav and Rajbhasha Kirti Awards and launched the Bha.
