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GUWAHATI: Gorkhas throughout India are outraged after the All India Girls Convention (AIWC) rejected a efficiency of artistes from the neighborhood at the flooring that ‘Nepali’ is a “non-Indian” language.
On June 9, AIWC government member and the pinnacle of occasions Chandra Prabha Pandey had despatched out a notice requesting contributions for an match organised coinciding with “Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav”. The contributions had been patriotic songs and dances carried out in regional languages.
When artists from Kalimpong in West Bengal had despatched of their contributions, they had been allegedly rudely instructed by means of Pandey “we can’t show off performances in non-Indian languages”, the Bharatiya Gorkha Parisangh (BGP) alleged.
This had induced AIWC, Kalimpong secretary Aruna Pradhan to intrude however Pandey allegedly insisted “they can’t ship nationwide anthem sung within the Nepali language as it’s not a language from India”.
The BGP expressed surprise over how Pandey carried out herself. “It’s stunning the AIWC is de facto ignorant that Nepali language/Gorkha Bhasa is without doubt one of the nationwide languages of India spoken by means of 10.5 million Indian Gorkhas and duly recognised beneath the 8th Time table of the Indian Charter,” BGP adolescence wing common secretary Ramesh Bastola stated.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista additionally expressed surprise. “The AIWC has proven planned racism in opposition to the Gorkha neighborhood of our country by means of claiming that Nepali isn’t an Indian language and now not permitting a efficiency within the Nepali language,” he stated.
The Bharatiya Gorkha Yuva Parisangh requested Pandey to smooth a public apology inside 24 hours or she can be sued.
“Our group will record a web-based petition too in order that this incident doesn’t occur once more,” a Gorkha chief stated.