While India’s executive continues to grapple with questions surrounding the exercise of regional languages, the Canadian parliament witnessed a historical 2d this week as MP Chandra Arya delivered a speech in his native tongue, Kannada.
I spoke in my mother tongue (first language) Kannada in Canadian parliament.
This gorgeous language has long historical past and is spoken by about 50 million individuals.
Here’s the first time Kannada is spoken in any parliament in the enviornment outdoors of India. pic.twitter.com/AUanNlkETT— Chandra Arya (@AryaCanada) May per chance moreover 19, 2022
“Here’s the first time Kannada is spoken in any parliament in the enviornment outdoors of India,” explained Arya in a tweet. The Trudeau-allied Liberal Birthday party MP, who represents the district of Nepean in Canada’s capital city Ottawa, thanked the parliament for his or her stable expose of reinforce and inclusivity, one thing several governments internationally could perhaps well learn from.
“It is a matter of pride for five crore Kannadigas that a Canadian MP from Sira taluk of Karnataka’s Tumakuru district is speaking in Kannada,” he said, referring to his dwelling district on the outskirts of Bengaluru. Arya capped off his speech with just a few traces from 20th century Kannada poet Kuvempu. “Elladare iru, enthadaru iru, nee Kannadavagiru”, he said, which interprets to: “Wherever you can perhaps well even be, on the opposite hand you can perhaps well even be, continuously be a Kannadiga”.
The MP’s phrases touched hundreds and hundreds of Kannadigas across the enviornment, and loads of reinforce and appreciation poured in since his video went viral:
That’s the amazing thing about democracy. You’ll want to to perhaps well presumably be allowed to keep in touch in a language which is fully alien to Canada but right here in the land where it originated, indulge in loads of diversified languages of the nation, it’s subjugated under a spurious allege of Hindi supremacy.
— Donald D’Souza (@donaldsvd) May per chance moreover 20, 2022
Thank you Chandra Arya for making Kannadigas proud. You are going to contain carried out all of it but again. Hope this can inspire extra of our Karnataka politicians to exercise Kan