Former get together colleagues Jyotiraditya Scindia and Shashi Tharoor discovered themselves on both facet of the ‘Hindi fence’ on Thursday, with the Union minister responding to an English query in Hindi and the Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram terming it an insult.
While responding to supplementary questions requested by members from Tamil Nadu in English, the civil aviation minister replied in Hindi.
Soon after, Tharoor commented that it was an “apman (insult)” that the minister was responding in Hindi. The minister speaks English and let him reply in English, Tharoor mentioned.
“Zara jawab Hindi mein mat dijiye… ye apman hai logon ka (Please don’t give replies in Hindi… it is an insult to people),” Tharoor mentioned throughout Question Hour.
A visibly peeved Scindia mentioned it was unusual for the member to make such a remark. “Mein Hindi bole to eithraaz ho raha hai (If I speak in Hindi, (the member) has objections,” he mentioned, including that there was additionally a translator within the House.
Immediately after Tharoor made the remarks, Speaker Om Birla mentioned, “Ye apman nahi hain (this is not an insult).”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
