India, July 10 -- Amid the ongoing row over introducing Hindi as a third language in primary schools in Maharashtra, state governor CP Radhakrishnan has said that learning the language is needed to understand the problems of people across the country. He added that he regrets not being able to learn Hindi while growing up, as the language was not taught in municipal schools in his village in Tamil Nadu.
Radhakrishnan, a former state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu, made these observations when a nine-member delegation of the Committee of Parliament on Official Language, under the Ministry of Home Affairs, called on him at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Welcoming the committee members, Radhakrishnan remarked...
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