Agartala, Feb 21: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday appealed Tripura to adopt the Devangari script to strengthen its cultural identity.
Shah made these remarks while addressing the Eastern, North-Eastern, and Northern Regional Rajbhasha Sammelan, held at the International Indoor Exhibition Centre, Hapania.
He noted that in Tripura, people speak Bangla, Kokborok, and Hindi fluently.
“In Tripura, there has been no conflict centered around language or script. All three languages are progressing simultaneously. In the North East, many people have brought recognition to the region through Hindi, including Dr. Bhupen Hazarika, S.D. Burman, R.D. Burman, Zubeen Garg, and others. Everyone should accept the Devanagari script and communicate in this dialect,” Shah stated.
Union home minister said, “There can be no dispute between Hindi and other local languages since they are two sisters of the same mother who have progressed hand in hand together,”.
Shah emphasised the importance of Devanagari as a unifying script and said, “The Devanagari script, for which Vinoba Bhave ji had advocated, forms the base for numerous languages. By linking Devanagari with all dialects, we can preserve more than 2,000 dialects of the country. These dialects will not disappear. To safeguard them, we must strengthen the Devanagari script movement even further and take it two steps ahead.”
