Thackeray men get the boot!
MLAs get suspended for 4 years, for misconduct and violence.
Ram Kadam, Shishir Shinde, Ramesh Vanzale and Vasant Gite are the four MLAs, Maharashtra Assembly has suspended for assaulting Abu Azmi.
Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi was taking his oath in Hindi at the assembly which agitated the MLAs. Within a matter of seconds Azmi was cornered by the pro-marathi MNS men.
Thackeray's men grabbed the microphone and slapped Abu Azmi for the same. In fact the spokesperson of MNS, Shirish Parkar retorted "Hindi is not a national language".
In the new Assembly, Thackeray has 13 MLAs and chief minister, Ashok Chavan, has demanded action against all.
Author: Shivalika Sharma | Published Nov 09, 2009 | 04:42 PM
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Neither the Constitution of India nor Indian law specifies a National language. Article 343 of the constitution specifies that the official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. Article 354 specifies that the legislature of a State may by law adopt any one or more of the languages in use in the State or Hindi as the Language or Languages to be used for all or any of the official purposes of that State.[3] Section 8 of The Official Languages Act of 1963 (as amended in 1967) empowers the Union Government to make rules regarding the languages which may be used for the official purposes of the Union, for transaction of business in Parliament, and for communication between the Union Government and the states.[4] Section 3 of G.S.R. 1053, titled "Rules, 1976 (As Amended, 1987)" specifies that communications from a Central (Union) Government office to a State or a Union Territory in shall, save in exceptional cases (Region "A") or shall ordinarily (Region "B"), be in Hindi, and if any communication is issued to any of them in English it shall be accompanied by a Hindi translation thereof.
By raj kumar | Nov 27, 2009 | 03:08 AM | Login to flag commentWell, I'm all for Hindi as a National language and DO NOT support ANY of the views of the MNS. That said, hindi is actually not the national language, as far as I know. The constitution of India defines hindi as the official language of the state, along with a couple of other languages .. but it is NOT the official language. Infact, unlike a lot of other countries, India does not have any national language.
By Sharninder | Nov 09, 2009 | 06:06 PM | Login to flag comment