Nashik (Maharashtra), Jan 4
There should be a campaign demanding primary education in Urdu for Muslims to promote the language, union Minority Affairs Minister K. Rahman Khan said at an Urdu festival here.
"We all say that we are working for the promotion of Urdu language, but simultaneously blame others for ignoring it. The question is: what have we actually done for its promotion?" Khan asked, inaugurating a 10-day long 14th Urdu Festival in Malegaon town Friday, organised by National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL).
"It is high time that we all analyse the injustice we have done to the Urdu language and take corrective measures. The Constitution has given necessary protection to Urdu. Have we ever used this Constitutional right to demand protection of our mother tongue?" Khan asked the huge gathering of Muslim intellectuals, scholars and commoners.
He said the Muslims have never held a protest or a campaign for the protection and promotion of Urdu language.
Underlining education as the only tool Indian Muslims can use to prosper, the minister, who is an alumnus of an Urdu school in Karnataka, said there should be a campaign demanding primary education in Urdu language for the community.
By:IANS