Has any Prime Minister of India ever addressed the public in Hindi? Our current Prime minister Narendra Modi addresses the public only in Gujarati whether from a public platform or on radio and other media. (1/n) https://twitter.com/iampv17/status/1331593383752593410

Narashima Rao was chosen as a Prime Minister only because he was a Telugu Scholar and could speak only in the Telugu language and absolutely knew no other language. (2/n)

Atal Behari Vajpayee used only Tamizh. He even composed poems in Sangam Tamizh and recited them in the Parliament (3/n)

Manmohan Singh, the “accidental” Prime Minister spoke only in Punjabi and did not know Hindi ; and lastly Prime minister Devegowda who hails from the core Hindi heartland, whose mother tongue is Curry Bowli- (4/n)

Hindi was forced to read his Prime Minister’s address in Kannada written in Devana-greed script ; when even at the prime minister level this is the case, how can can anyone claim Hindi is being imposed? (5/n)

You look at the currency notes of India. More than 10 Indian languages including Kodava, Marathi ,Assamese, Kashmiri are displayed in bold font in all the currency notes but (6/n)

Hindi alone is given such a small space in a micro font, that you hardly notice the Devanagreed script used to write Hindi. (7/n)

In the Coins it is much Worse , every mint of India prints coins with English and the local language. So we have Indian rupee coins of all denominations (1,2,5,10) with Manipuri, Malayalam, Gujarati ,Tulu, Gadwalli etc (8/n)

but not even a single coin of any denomination is minted with Hindi in it. (9/n)

and lastly coming to schooling and education, even in the Khariboli Hindi heartland of New Delhi, NCR and Western Uttar Pradesh, there are CBSE schools where Hindi is not even an optional subject (10/n)

and even people who have Hindi as a mother tongue can easily complete their full education without learning to read and write one phrase in Hindi. (11/11)

This was a response on a Quora page, But it is exactly true hense I stated it here. And Another response for you to understand what politics is behind this: https://qr.ae/pN9Huk