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Chandigarh, September 17
Student organisations — Sath and AFSS — staged a protest at the Student Centre against Hindi writers, who allegedly dishonoured Punjabi and threatened to make it disappear in the coming years.
Juzar Singh of Sath said at a function organised by the Bhasha Vibhag, Punjab, to mark the Hindi Diwas, some Hindi writers passed disrespectful comments on Punjabi language, calling it cheap and vulgar.
“Hukam Chand Rajpal was chairing the function. When Punjabi writer Tejwant Singh Maan, president, Kendri Punjabi Lekhak Sabha, were telling the audience about the importance and richness of Punjabi language and literature, he was asked to speak in Hindi. On resisting the anti-Punjabi attitude of organisers, he was forced to leave the stage,” said Juzar Singh.
He said: “The forceful imposition of Hindi has caused harm to other languages.”
Kirat Preet Kaur, AFSS president, said: “It the RSS agenda to deny independent existence to all languages as dialects of Hindi, but Punjabi is rich and independent language having grand writings like Sri Guru Granth Sahib, Dasam Granth and many more religious scripture.”
Amanpreet Kaur, PSU spokesperson, joined the chorus. “Punjabis will not bend in front of dictators like Amit Shah who is willing to impose Hindi on in Hindi areas,” she said. After that Paramvir Singh recited a poem about glory of Punjabi language. Sandeep from the SFS said fascist state wants to make this part of Indian subcontinent a mono-lingual geographical area.