‘Our communities never divided country’
JODHPUR, Jan 10: Emphasising the need to encourage ‘Swadeshi’ and ‘Swabhasha’, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday urged people to make and use local products and converse in their mother tongue at home.
Shah said that language is key to preserving any society, culture and religion. While any language can be learnt or spoken as required to progress in the world, only Hindi and local languages must be used for conversation with children at home, as it will help strengthen their connection with their roots, he stressed.
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The Minister was addressing the Maheshwari Global Convention at Jodhpur, where members from the Maheshwari community have converged from various parts of the country and abroad.
“If you talk in your language with the children at home, they will be automatically connected to their history, to their state of Rajasthan…. It is the language only which keeps the society alive, religion alive and takes the culture forward,” said Shah.
“Speak in any language as is needed at other places, even if it is a foreign language, but speak only in the mother tongue with children at home,” the Minister said.
Emphasising the need to work towards ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’, Shah termed Swadeshi as the only mantra to attain the goal in order to make India a leading nation in every field by 2047. (PTI)
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