The talk on the imposition of Hindi has resurfaced in Karnataka after the Workers Choice Fee (SSC) lately notified that the Mixed Graduate Stage Examination-2022 will probably be performed solely in English and Hindi.
After Kannada language activists raised objections to the identical, JD(S) chief and former Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday expressed his reservations over the “language discrimination” being practised by the central authorities.
In a tweet, he identified that SSC was conducting exams solely in two languages to fill 20,000 vacancies. “Chosen candidates could be deputed to any state. There isn’t a possibility (to attend the examination) in Kannada or every other regional language. Do we want extra proof for Hindi imposition and language discrimination?” he mentioned.
Kumaraswamy alleged that BJP was working in the direction of suppressing regional languages. “It seems that they’re constructing a tomb for the three-language coverage,” Kumaraswamy tweeted.
Professional-Kannada activists have demanded that the Centre be certain that the exams are held in Kannada and solely Kannadigas be appointed to vacancies arising out of Karnataka.
ಕೇಂದ್ರದ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಆಯೋಗ (SSC) 20,000 ಹುದ್ದೆ ಆಯ್ಕೆಗೆ ಹಿಂದಿ-ಇಂಗ್ಲೀಷ್ʼನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತ್ರ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆ ನಡೆಸುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಆಯ್ಕೆಯಾದ ಅಭ್ಯರ್ಥಿಯನ್ನು ಯಾವ ರಾಜ್ಯಕ್ಕಾದರೂ ಕಳುಹಿಸಬಹುದು. ಕನ್ನಡ ಸೇರಿ ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಾದೇಶಿಕ ಭಾಷೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಪರೀಕ್ಷೆಗೆ ಅವಕಾಶವಿಲ್ಲ.
ಹಿಂದಿ ಹೇರಿಕೆ, ಭಾಷಾ ತಾರತಮ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಇದಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಸಾಕ್ಷಿ ಬೇಕೆ? 1/5 pic.twitter.com/upGS4AXwKE
— ಹೆಚ್.ಡಿ.ಕುಮಾರಸ್ವಾಮಿ | H.D.Kumaraswamy (@hd_kumaraswamy) October 7, 2022
Professional-Kannada activist Arun Javgal mentioned that the Kannada Rakshana Vedike will launch a protest towards the round. He had tagged a number of outstanding politicians of the state on Twitter asking them to talk out towards the injustice being meted out to the youth of Karnataka.
Over the previous a number of years, pro-Kannada activists had alleged that youth pursuing training in regional languages have been being not noted of central authorities job alternatives as exams have been performed solely in two languages.
Earlier than the controversy over SSC, pro-Kannada teams carried out quite a few campaigns over the permitted languages within the Institute of Banking Personnel Choice exams.