Image Source : FILE PHOTO Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to declare Bengali a classical language. In her letter, the Bengal CM requested the Prime Minister to subject needed directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in order that Bengali is accepted as a ‘classical language’ on the earliest.
Mamata Banerjee stated that Bengali is the second most spoken language within the nation and seventh most spoke on this planet. She additionally hit out on the Centre for not listening to state’s long-pending demand of adjusting its identify from West Bengal to Bangla.
“We had handed it (proposal of adjusting the state’s identify to Bangla) twice within the Assembly and clarified all their confusions. But but we weren’t given the identify. If Bombay
might be Mumbai, Orissa might be Odisha, why are we not allowed the brand new identify? Bengal’s significance is being lowered,” she stated.
As the identify of West Bengal begins with W, which alphabetically is on the finish, officers are made to attend at conferences the place representatives of different states are additionally current, Banerjee stated. Opportunities to talk are allotted alphabetically.
The chief minister stated if two states having the identical identify of Punjab could possibly be there in India and Pakistan, a rustic named Bangladesh and a state named Bangla may additionally co-exist.
In her letter to Modi, she stated there are already six formally recognised classical languages — Tamil, Sanskrit, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and Odia.
Bengali language dates again to third or 4th century BCE, says Mamata
Banerjee hooked up the abstract of a scholarly work undertaken by the state authorities, which dated the origin of the Bengali language to the third or 4th Century BCE.
This “will very briefly state the substance of our contention and submit how Bengali eminently qualifies to be classified as a Classical Language by the Ministry of Home Affairs,” she wrote to the Prime Minister.
Apart from being the nationwide language of Bangladesh, Bengali is an official language of West Bengal, she stated including that it’s the second most spoken language in India in addition to the seventh most spoken language on this planet. Bengalis have a wealthy heritage and tradition courting again to prehistoric instances, she stated.
The chief minister additionally referred to the language’s wealthy historic evolution encompassing “both oral and written traditions”.
Mamata websites archaeological proof
She additionally cited the “evidence – from archaeological findings, inscriptions, references in ancient Sanskrit and Pali texts, and a substantial body of pre-seventh-century Bengali literature underpins its classical heritage”.
“I would be grateful if you kindly issue necessary instructions to the MHA so that the claim of Bengali language as a classical language is accepted at the earliest,” she concluded.
Later chatting with reporters, Banerjee, blamed the the erstwhile Left Front authorities, with out naming it, for not taking over the matter of the ‘Bengali’ language with the Centre.
“We should have got it long back, but it’s because of our idiocy, we did not get it. Because those who were here (in power in Bengal) before us never thought in this manner. They were more interested in doing politics,” she stated.
Banerjee stated that she was additionally sending 4 volumes of the analysis works to the MHA.
“We have constituted teams of officials and scholars to carry out this research. Bengali could have got the classical status long back. It has a history of 2,500 years. Once granted the status, it will make Bengali one of the world’s most important languages,” she pressured.
With inputs from PTI
Source: www.indiatvnews.com
