Minister replies in Sanskrit, wins applause in House
Pandey, raising the issue of promoting Sanskrit education in MP, began by announcing he would read his motion in Sanskrit. "Since my call attention motion concerns Sanskrit, I will like to read out the notice in Sanskrit," he said.
As the members looked askance at each other, Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar said: "He will read it out in Sanskrit but the written text with you is in Hindi and the minister will reply in Hindi, too."
But, Singh took the House by surprise when he started replying as he, too, spoke in Sanskrit at length before turning to Hindi. "If I knew you were going to read out the notice in Sanskrit, I would have come better prepared and replied to the whole thing in Sanskrit," he said.
The minister, sharing Pandey's demand for better Sanskrit education facilities, however, said the BJP govt would always be committed to promote Sanskrit language, the language of gods and nobody should have any doubt about it.
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He also gave figures of Sanskrit schools, students and teachers therein, stipend given to students of Sanskrit schools, Patanjali Sanskrit Peeth founded by the state govt for promotion of Sanskrit education, and said the number of Sanskrit schools which were 34 in numbers in 2015 have now gone up to 271, reflecting the concern of the state government to promote Sanskrit education.
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