Ex Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy weighed in Thursday on the Twitter exchange between actors Ajay Devgn and Sudeep – on the always controversial subject of Hindi being India’s national language. In a series of tweets the Janata Dal (Secular) boss backed Kannada actor Sudeep and said ‘Hindi is not a national language…’ He also criticised Devgn for his ‘ludicrous behaviour’ and labelled him a ‘mouthpiece of BJP’s Hindi nationalism’.
Kumaraswamy also ripped into the BJP and said ‘a seed sown… has become contagious (and is) dividing the nation. This is a threat to India’s unity’.Actor Kiccha Sudeep saying that Hindi is not a National Language is correct. There is nothing to find fault in his statement. Actor Ajay Devgn is not only hyper in nature but also shows his ludicrous behaviour,” he tweeted.
“Just because a large population speaks Hindi, it doesn’t become a National Language. Less than 9 States, Kashmir-Kanyakumari, have Hindi as 2nd, 3rd language or not even that. This being situation what is the truth in Ajay Devgn’s statement? What do you mean by not to dub?” the former chief minister wrote. The controversy erupted after Sudeep’s response to ‘K.G.F: Chapter 2’ – a recently released Kannada film – being called a ‘pan-India film’.
He said Hindi could not be considered a national language and called on Bollywood to release dubbed versions of its films, to which Devgn responded ‘Hindi was, is and always will be our mother tongue and national language’.
