Speak Mother Tongue At Home : RSS Chief

way2barak, Jan 2: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday appealed for social harmony across the country, urging people to rise above the divisions of language, caste, and wealth. According to Bhagwat, people should speak their mother tongue at home, adding that all languages have equal weightage.

Bhagwat’s remarks came amid allegations by several regional parties, mostly from south India, that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has been “trying to give primacy to Hindi at the cost of regional languages”. They also came at a time when outrage had been growing over the killing of Angel Chakma, a student from Tripura, in Dehradun following alleged racial abuse.

“At least inside our houses, we should speak in our mother tongue. If you live in another state or region, you should learn the language of that state or region because all languages are India’s national languages. They all have equal weightage,” he said while addressing a ‘Hindu Sammelan’ at Sonpairi village in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district.