‘Hindi will not work’: Rahul Gandhi backs English education in schools

India

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The
former
Congress
chief
alleged
that
the
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(BJP)
leaders
do
not
want
the
children
of
poor
farmers
and
labourers
to
learn
English
because
they
do
not
want
them
to
dream
big.

New
Delhi,
Dec
20:
Congress
leader
Rahul
Gandhi
launched
a
scathing
attack
on
Union
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
and
other
BJP
leaders
on
Monday
for
“speaking
against
English”,
saying
they
oppose
the
use
of
English
as
a
teaching
medium
in
schools
but
their
children
study
in
such
schools.

Lauding
the
Ashok
Gehlot
government
in
Rajasthan
for
opening
1,700
English
medium
schools
and
recruiting
10,000
English
teachers,
Gandhi
said
studying
Hindi
and
other
Indian
languages
is
important
but
in
order
to
talk
to
the
world,
Hindi
will
not
be
useful
and
command
over
English
will
be
required.

“Leaders
opposed
to
us,
those
in
the
BJP,
wherever
they
go,
they
talk
against
English.
They
say
there
should
be
no
English
in
schools.
There
should
be
Bengali
and
Hindi,
but
no
English,”
he
said.

Gandhi
urged
people
to
ask
these
leaders
where
their
children
study.

“From
Amit
Shah
to
their
chief
ministers,
MPs,
MLAs
—
their
children
go
to
English
medium
schools
and
they
give
speeches
that
no
one
should
speak
in
English,”
he
said.

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and
your
Mummy
ji:
Smriti
Irani
hits
out
at
Rahul
Gandhi
after
shocking
sexist
remark
by
Congress
leader

The
former
Congress
chief
alleged
that
the
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(BJP)
leaders
do
not
want
the
children
of
poor
farmers
and
labourers
to
learn
English
because
they
do
not
want
them
to
dream
big.

“What
they
want
is
that
you
do
not
get
out
of
performing
labour,
from
your
farms
—
that
is
why
they
say
do
not
learn
English,”
he
said.

“I
am
not
saying
do
not
study
Hindi.
You
must
study
Hindi,
Tamil,
and
all
Indian
languages,
but
if
you
want
to
talk
to
the
world,
be
it
those
from
America,
Japan,
or
England,
then
Hindi
will
not
be
useful,
English
will
work
there.
We
want
the
poorest
of
poor
farmers
to
go
to
America
and
outdo
the
children
there
in
competition
in
their
language,”
Gandhi
said.

This
is
the
vision
of
the
Congress,
he
said,
noting
that
the
Rajasthan
government
has
opened
1,700
English
medium
schools
and
recruited
10,000
English
teachers.

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objects
to
Rahul
Gandhi’s
‘pitai’
reference
for
Indian
Army

“Ashok
Gehlotji,
this
is
less
as
every
child
in
Rajasthan
must
have
the
opportunity
to
learn
English.
Every
child
must
feel
that
he
can
speak
in
his
mother
tongue
and
also
speak
with
the
entire
world.
He
or
she
must
feel
that
they
can
go
and
hoist
the
national
flag
abroad,”
Gandhi
said.