Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram claimed that he had also experience similar taunts from government officers who asked him to converse in Hindi. (Express file)
A day after DMK MP Kanimozhi said that a CISF officer questioned her nationality when she asked the woman official to speak in Tamil or English at the Chennai airport, Congress leader and former finance minister P Chidambaram claimed he had also experienced similar taunts from government officers.
Taking to Twitter, Chidambaram said whatever happened with the DMK leader was not unusual. “I have experienced similar taunts from government officers and ordinary citizens who insisted that I speak in Hindi during telephone conversations and sometimes face to face,” he tweeted.
I have experienced similar taunts from government officers and ordinary citizens who insisted that I speak in Hindi during telephone conversations and sometimes face to face
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) August 10, 2020
Chidambaram further said if the Centre genuinely maintained that both Hindi and English are the official languages of India, then they must insist all Central government agencies and it's employees to converse in both the languages.
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