New Delhi, April 1 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has slammed politics over language and asserted that the states whose leaders are furthering it are on a gradual decline. The chief minister also said the Uttar Pradesh government was teaching languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi to its students.

"In UP, we are teaching Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali and Marathi, so has UP become smaller due to this? New employment opportunities are being created in UP, jobs are being created. Those who are creating this language controversy due to their narrow political interests, they may fulfill their political motives, but they are in a way attacking the employment of the youth," Adityan...