Hindi is a leading language of India, it is a national language this is a universal truth.
But if any one wishes to speak any regional language he is always most welcomed everywhere in India. Hindi is not proposed as a national language by any Hindi leader,
It was strongly recommended by our great national leader Mahatma Gandhi( Guajarati) Netajil Subhash Chandra Bose( Bengali) Bal Gangadhar Rao Tilak ( Maharashtra) Bipin chnad pal( Bengali)Lala lajpat ray (Punjabi) Jawaharlal lal Nehru (Kashmir) venkat challeya (Tamil Nadu)Bhagat singh (Punjab) and many more respected leaders who struggle to make the country independent. Most of them were the Genius of English, but they recommended Hindi as a national language. Because each country of world has a national language, with out national language the country is not complete.
Hindi was the language found such eligibility.

All Indian must be respect Hindi as their mother. If you insult Hindi being an Indian you insult your mother. No one compel you to speak Hindi but respect it as all language of India.

Hindi is not actually only a national language of India but it is the international language, worlds largest population speak Hindi, the country Like India, Pakistan, Iran, Nepal, Bahrain, Bangla desh, Shree lanka, Bhutan Hindi is a prime language. Many Hindi songs are popular in most countries. In whole world the Indian are recognized as “Hindiwala”

Indian must change their mentality, they must be proud on their national language.
It is not the language of UP and Bihar, it is a language of all Indians. If some one has different mentality then we must be ready to accept that always negative people we ere in this country, so some are today also.

JAI Hind

Hinduism is not a national religion, as INDIA is a DEMOCRATIC and SECULAR country and there is no bais on religion. Religion is set of convections what you follow and no one can impose what religion you should follow and tell me how is HINDUISM anywhere related to LANGUAGE? all our Vedas are written in SANSKRIT. do you talk SANSHRIT on day basis? but we do follow the convections of HINDUISM right?

Why do you intend to compare two complelty mutually exclusive persectives and make a point that Hindi is not naitonal language.

People are hit and abused everywhere irrespective of creed and language, no one will ask “are you marathi?” and hit you excepted cases where there are communal riots and you genuinely come to know who is the other victim( apart from you ).

No one is asking you to talk Hindi or adopt Hindi as your mother tongue. I am not concern qhy Abu Azim did not learn Marathi , may be its his personla choice.

I think I would rather stop here.

@ kid

emotions are the natural outcome of any human being.

@Mayur

I respect your opinion about Raj. I just wanted to tell you that according to article 373 of constitution, hindi, english and all other 23 state languages together are labelled as “Official” languages of INDIA… Their is NO national language of India as such…

ASK ANY LAWYER ABOUT THIS.

Regarding Raj’s construction firm ( Matoshree Infrastructures Pvt. Ltd.) , its owned by three people :: Raj himself, Rajan Shirodkar and Unmesh Joshi (Manohar Joshi’s son)…..

Raj has no business relation with Abu Azmi whatsover…Please dont talk without proofs. I would be glad if you provide some link to back your claims.

@ Big K

Leave it, this people will never understand the emotions of marathi people. They wont comment on marathis getting beaten up in Raipur 3 months ago, nor would they comment on Biharis attacked in karnataka, goa, assam, punjab….

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Btw, ABU AZMI has been living in Maharashtra for 30-40 years… still he couldnt learn marathi ????????? Isnt it a shame ??????

I am least interested in Azmi ignorance or knowledge of any particular language. What I am interested in, is, that he gets his fair share of freedom of choice.

And if a request is made in such a manner, that if someone decides not to abide, then he gets manhandled, I am sorry it is not more of a request is it.

As I said, language is a means of communication. And if you like to communicate only in your language, then do not respond to any other language.

Take for example of Chennai. You have to learn Tamil there if you have to live there in the long term. And No, they don’t manhandle you, if you do not speak Tamil. They simple refuse to understand anything else other than Tamil.

Simply because the representatives of the people of Maharashtra are ought to know the Language. The point is, as said earlier, Maharashtra attracts lot of folks from UP & Bihar – and they don’t just come to Maharashtra to work – they come here to form political powers. No, not that what they do is ‘illegal’, but they also bring their own culture with them and try to impose them on others.

Even after so many requests to him by others, he chose to take oath in Hindi – why such bullishness?

They know, Hindi as an addition.

On top of that, I have seen Tamils able to understand Kannada even without learning, because they are very simillar. I have seen gulti read a Kannada script, even though he had never seen it before. It would be wrong to compare these three languages !!

Secondly, If the people have chosen him to represent them, then why is his knowledge of Marathi such a big issue to everybody else?

Thirdly, I think it is very different then saying I would learn and actually learning a language, especially once passed the prime of your learning curve. Only a small percentage, whom I can say have a flair for languages, can do that.

Fourthly, even if he knew Marathi and still had he chosen to take oath in Hindi, can you guarantee that he would not have been manhandled?

I think, it is not about language, its about making one’s own choices.