The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as a “Bangladeshi language.” This is a direct insult to the very language...
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin condemned Delhi Police labeling Bengali as a foreign language, extending solidarity to Mamata Banerjee defending linguistic identity.
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The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as a “Bangladeshi language.” This is a direct insult to the very language in which our National Anthem was written.
Such statements are not inadvertent errors or slips. They expose the dark mindset of a regime that consistently undermines diversity and weaponises identity.
In the face of this assault on non-Hindi languages, Hon’ble @MamataOfficial Didi stands as a shield for the language and people of West Bengal. She will not let this attack pass without a fitting response.
Expressing profound outrage over chauvinistic administrative prejudice, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin strongly condemned the Delhi Police, functioning under the Union Ministry of Home Affairs, for formally classifying the Bengali language as a Bangladeshi tongue during official documentation. Stalin termed the characterization a direct, unacceptable insult to a rich classical language in which India's sacred National Anthem was composed by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, asserting that such official statements reflect a calculated majoritarian agenda rather than inadvertent clerical errors.
The Chief Minister warned that the incident lays bare the troubling ideological mindset of the Union government, which persistently marginalizes non-Hindi regional tongues, undermines cultural pluralism, and weaponizes ethnic and linguistic identities to polarize society. Stalin conveyed unyielding solidarity to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, commending her steadfast role as a defensive shield safeguarding Bengal's linguistic heritage, democratic autonomy, and the dignity of its people against overbearing central encroachment.
Stalin concluded that all non-Hindi linguistic nationalities must unite to repel aggressive linguistic hegemony. He affirmed that the Dravidian movement will perpetually resist administrative efforts to degrade India's constitutional diversity and linguistic federalism.