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Gaga over Guv’s address in Hindi: Paul prefers speech in universal language

Paul Lyngdoh was reacting to Voice of the People Party (VPP) chief Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit’s remarks that the centre was trying to impose the Hindi language on the people of Meghalaya by sending a governor who cannot communicate in English or other languages understood widely by the people of the state. 

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Cabinet minister and UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh on March 20 said there is no question of the Government of India’s attempt to impose the Hindi language on the people of the state because constitutionally, Hindi is not a national language.

Lyngdoh was reacting to Voice of the People Party (VPP) chief Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit’s remarks that the centre was trying to impose the Hindi language on the people of Meghalaya by sending a governor who cannot communicate in English or other languages understood widely by the people of the state.

“If you go to the rules of conduct of business, it is clear that a member can make a submission in his mother tongue provided that the same copy of that speech is made available to the speaker. The speech of the governor was placed on every member’s table. What he delivered was an abridged version of the speech; he did not read out the entire speech covered by the written text. He spoke barely for 15 minutes,” Lyngdoh said.

The minister, however, preferred an address in a language understood by all. “Ideally speaking, when you communicate, I would have preferred an address in a language that I can thoroughly understand. Today, to compensate for that, what I did was I read the governor’s speech in English and reading is far better because you can internalise points of the speech better than listening to a language that I can only half understand,” he said.

When asked whether the government of India should consider the sentiments of the people and appoint a governor who can speak English or other languages understood by the majority, Lyngdoh wittily replied, “I can only say that when I go to Parliament.”

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