Hindi
There has always existed a school of thought cutting across political parties (No rth based) which wanted Hindi to be the National language. The constitution does not name Hindi or any other language as National language although promoting Hindi as one of the official language ( the other official language being English, apart from regional languages) has been a declared policy of the government with 14th Sept declared as Hindi diwas to be celebrated every year. The celebrations are mainly confined to token functions in government and affiliated institutes ( like PSUs) and public speeches by ruling politicians exhorting people to poularise use of Hindi. The demand for making Hindi language as the National language keeps surfacing on such ocassions and each time it is raised by some statement from a politician, it leads to controversy. S uch controversies have almost invariably been initiated by politicians from the North and equally invariably engendered fierce opposition mainly ...