Chennai: DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Monday hit out at the Delhi Police for dubbing ‘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,” Stalin said in a post on X.
He hailed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying: “Didi stands as a shield for the language and people of West Bengal. She will not let this attack pass without a fitting response.”
Earlier on Sunday, Mamata Banerjee had questioned how how Delhi police under the direct control of Ministry of Home, Government of India is describing Bengali as “Bangladeshi” language!
“Bengali, our mother tongue, the language of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda, the language in which our National Anthem and the National Song (the latter by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay) are written, the language in which crores of Indians speak and write, the language which is sanctified and recognised by the Constitution of India, is now described as a Bangladeshi language!! Scandalous, insulting, anti- national, unconstitutional!! This insults all Bengali-speaking people of India,” she had said citing a letter from an Investigation Officer.
