New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- union Home Minister Amit Shah on the occasion of Hindi Diwas today, said that Hindi is the companion of Indian languages and that there is no conflict between Hindi and other Indian languages.

"The biggest example of this is Gujarat. In Gujarat, scholars like Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and KM Munshi accepted Hindi and also promoted it," Shah said at the 5th Akhil Bhartiya Rajbhasha Sammelan in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, a Home Ministry statement said.

He added that many visionary leaders taught Indian languages to communicate with each other and urged the promotion of Hindi in every state, as a result of which a person from Gujarat can go anywhere in the country and easily conduct ...