Chennai: Tamil Nadu Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Thursday joined issue with Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the issue of Hindi, saying that the language was spoken only 4 or 5 states of the country in a predominant manner.
Responding to the statement of the Union Home Minister that Hindi was the uniting force of the country and that it was empowering regional languages, Udhayanidhi Stalin, in a post on social media platform ‘X’ said: “I strongly condemn the statement of Union Home Minister Amit Shah claiming that Hindi is the uniting force of India and it is empowering other languages.”