: Start with Gujarat if you can: TRS dares BJP to impose Hindi across India #IndiaNEWS #News Hyderabad: The recommendation of a parliamentary committee that the medium of instruction in technical and

Start with Gujarat if you can: TRS dares BJP to impose Hindi across India #IndiaNEWS #News
Hyderabad: The recommendation of a parliamentary committee that the medium of instruction in technical and non-technical higher educational institutes such as IITs should be Hindi has met with strong opposition from the states ruling party, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS).
As a party which fought for Telangana state and claims to be the only true representative of the Telangana sentiment, the TRS was quick to oppose the recommendation saying it is against any move to impose Hindi.
The party is of the view that India does not have a national language and Hindi is one among the many official languages.
The TRS, which recently decided to go national by changing its name to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), was quick to latch on to the issue as political analysts say it gels well with its focus on federalism.
A bitter critic of the Narendra Modi government, the TRS believes that the Centre is flouting the federal spirit. It is of the strong view that Indians should have a choice of language.
Telangana is considered as a mini-India because of its true cosmopolitan nature and the language sentiments here are not as strong as in Tamil Nadu or Karnataka but in recent times attempts to impose Hindi have evoked strong opposition.
Not confining itself to merely issuing a statement, the TRS this time wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to oppose the move.
TRS working president KT Rama Rao wrote to Modi strongly opposing the move to make Hindi a medium of instruction in all technical and non-technical educational institutions including central universities.
Rama Rao (also known as KTR) termed the recommendation of the parliamentary committee as unconstitutional and demanded that it should be withdrawn.
KTR detailed the far reaching disastrous impact of the unconstitutional recommendation on the future of current and future generations, the division it could create between various parts of India, and other crucial aspects.
The son of TRS president and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao highlighted how indirect imposition of Hindi is currently ruining the lives of crores of youngsters.
He wrote that students who pursue education in regional languages are losing out on central government job opportunities as questions in qualifying tests for the central jobs are in Hindi and English.
He pointed out that there are around 20 central recruitment agencies which conduct the exams in Hindi and English. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) conducts 16 recruitment exams for national posts in the two languages.
The minister said job announcements from central recruiting agencies are scarce and the limited recruitment drives are discriminatory against the students who pursued education in regional languages.