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Explained: What India's Constitution Says About Hindi and National Language

India.com News Desk April 28, 2022 12:11 PM IST

The debate over Hindi being a national language has been raging since Independence. In the past, the constituent assembly had witnessed heated exchanges over the use and scope of Hindi with one member, Pandit Raghunath Vinayak Dhulekar (Indian freedom fighter), declaring that those who did not know Hindustani (as Hindi was known back then) "had no right to stay in India".

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