Chandigarh, Feb. 28 -- The Punjab government on Thursday demanded immediate action to restore Punjabi as a main subject in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum for Class 10 in Punjab, besides demanding inclusion of Punjabi language in the list of regional languages across India.

In a letter to Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Punjab school education minister Harjot Singh Bains, expressed strong objection and deep resentment over the "deliberate sidelining" of Punjabi in the recently proposed CBSE exam pattern for Class 10 (2025-26), calling it a direct attack on the linguistic and cultural identity of the state.

The strongly worded letter was sent a day after the Punjab government's notification on Febr...