India, March 12 -- Goa MLA Michael Lobo on Wednesday caused a flutter when he called on his own party's government to change the medium of instruction in government run primary schools to English, saying that the politics of language was killing the schools.

He was speaking on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Goa's first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar, affectionately referred to as Bhausaib, who is credited with starting an education revolution in the state with the commencement of mass primary level education through government schools in Marathi and Konkani.

"Everyone wants to enrol their children in schools with English as the medium of instruction. But government schools teach in Konkani and Marathi. The (government) scho...