Not
so
long
ago,
actors
Ajay
Devgn
and
Kiccha
Sudeep
got
into
Twitter
spat
when
the
former
slammed
the
latter
for
saying
that
Hindi
is
not
our
national
language.
Kiccha's
statement
did
not
go
down
well
with
Devgn
and
he
called
out
the
Kannada
star
on
Twitter.
While
Kiccha
responded
him
humbly,
netizens
were
outraged
by
Devgn's
tweet
and
slammed
him
for
imposing
Hindi
on
South
Indians.
In
his
recent
tete-a-tete
with
a
media
portal,
when
Jaaved
Jaaferi
was
probed
about
the
same,
he
said
that
even
he
used
to
think
that
Hindi
is
India's
national
language.
However,
when
he
read
about
it,
he
realised
that
he
was
wrong.
He
told
India
Today,
"I
read
up
a
bit
about
it.
Constitutionally,
there
is
no
one
language.
That's
what
I
looked
at.
I
was
looking
at
the
official
Indian
languages
and
the
constitution
gives
no
language
a
status
of
the
national
language.
I
came
across
that.
I
was
even
under
the
impression
that
Hindi
is
the
national
language.
But
I
just
looked
up
that
the
constitution
gives
no
language
the
status
of
a
national
language."
He
further
said,
"And
there
are
22
official
languages.
Out
of
which,
Assamese,
Bengali,
Hindi,
Marathi,
Gujarati,
Urdu
and
Sindhi,
all
these
are
the
official
languages.
See,
the
point
is
about
unity
in
diversity.
That
was
and
is
the
beauty
of
this
country."
He
went
on
to
add
that
there
are
so
many
religions
in
India,
but
there
is
no
national
religion.
There
is
no
national
language.
"You
have
a
national
bird
or
a
national
flower.
The
future
of
the
country
is
the
simulation
of
everything
and
I
think
no
other
country
has
that," he
concluded.