Congress slams Rajnath’s English language remark
20 July 2013 11:33 PM GMT
Taking on BJP President Rajnath Singh for his remark that the spread of English had hurt Indian culture, Congress on Friday said the opposition party had itself ‘outsourced’ its vision document to people who only spoke English.
‘I sometimes feel like laughing at our friends. On one side their vision document is outsourced to people who don’t speak any language other than English. Is this medievalism or hypocrisy,’ information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said.
Tewari said the debate whether pre-schoolers should be taught English so that they can use the Internet had taken place in other countries also.
‘This attempt to create a dispute over language or saying that one language is better or worse that another, doesn’t strengthen the country and is not expected from a responsible political party,’ Tewari said.
The I&B minister also rejected the criticism of the government’s handling of the economy by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha.
‘I am quite amazed at times, as to how in the kind of global economic environment that we are can any responsible political party really criticise a 5 to 6 percent growth in the economy when most major economies are either registering a negative growth or are barely positive,’ he said.
‘I sometimes feel like laughing at our friends. On one side their vision document is outsourced to people who don’t speak any language other than English. Is this medievalism or hypocrisy,’ information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari said.
Tewari said the debate whether pre-schoolers should be taught English so that they can use the Internet had taken place in other countries also.
‘This attempt to create a dispute over language or saying that one language is better or worse that another, doesn’t strengthen the country and is not expected from a responsible political party,’ Tewari said.
The I&B minister also rejected the criticism of the government’s handling of the economy by BJP leader Yashwant Sinha.
‘I am quite amazed at times, as to how in the kind of global economic environment that we are can any responsible political party really criticise a 5 to 6 percent growth in the economy when most major economies are either registering a negative growth or are barely positive,’ he said.
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