India, March 2 -- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Sunday stressed the importance of nurturing India's linguistic diversity and questioned whether "there should be a confrontational stance on languages in the land of Bharat".

Addressing the students and faculty of the Indian Insitute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad on Sunday, Dhankar said Indian languages are a "gold mine of literature" with "classical texts such as the Vedas, Puranas, our epics, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Gita serving as testaments to their significance".

His comments come amid the Tamil Nadu government's opposition to the National Education Policy (NEP)'s three-language formula, which includes Hindi. Chief minister MK Stalin had asserted that forced Hindi adoption has "sw...