Include Punjabi in official language list of J&K, says Amarinder
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Punjab CM urges Modi to advise Home Ministry to rethink and evaluate the list.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Wednesday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention for the inclusion of Punjabi in the official list of languages of Jammu and Kashmir.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Captain Singh urged him to advise the Union Ministry of Home Affairs to rethink and evaluate the official list and embody Punjabi additionally as one of the official languages in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Asserting that he was voicing the resentment of the Punjabi group over the exclusion of Punjabi from the list of official languages, Captain Singh identified that Jammu and Kashmir was an element of Punjab through the period of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, with Punjabi one of the vernacular language of the area.
When Jammu and Kashmir got here into existence as an unbiased State, Punjabi was a extensively spoken language in the State and is now the mom tongue of all of the Punjabis in the Jammu area, in addition to being spoken by the Punjabi group dwelling in the Kashmir Valley, he wrote.
The Chief Minister identified that underneath the Jammu-Kashmir Languages Bill, 2020, which was handed by each the Houses of Parliament with voice vote in September 2020, Kashmiri, Dogri and Hindi had been included in the list of official languages in the Union Territory, in addition to the prevailing Urdu and English. Unfortunately, Punjabi was not included in the list of languages which aren’t simply official languages now of the Union Territory however may even be taught in faculties as obligatory topics, he added.
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