I can't understand anything in your letter: BJD MP's response in Odia to union Minister Tomar's letter in Hindi
Tathagatha Sathpathy shared the letters on Twitter
In what appears to be the latest protest against the Centre’s push to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states, Biju Janata Dal leader Tathagatha Satpathy wrote an Odia letter in response to union minister Narendra Singh Tomar’s Hindi letter inviting him to a government programme.
As per an Outlook report, Satpathy received a letter in Hindi from Union Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation Minister Tomar on August 11 inviting him to a programme by the government. In response, Satpathy sent out a reply in Odia telling him that he doesn’t understand Hindi.
The BJD’s chief whip in the Lok Sabha then told the media that he would send a reply to Tomar in a language he himself understands.
“Shri Narendra Singh Tomar ji,
I have received your letter dated 11/08/2017. Thank you for that. But I would like to inform you that I can't understand anything written in this letter as I don't understand Hindi language. I would also like to state that our state Odisha falls in the C category so kindly send us letter in English or Odia.
May Lord Jagannath bless you!”