Lone khalid cni Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah today addressed Hindi Diwas 2026 and the 6th All India Official Language Conference in Mumbai as the Chief Guest. On the occasion, Maharashtra Chief Minister Shri Devendra Fadnavis, Deputy Chief Ministers Shri Eknath Shinde and Smt. Sunetra Pawar, Union Ministers of State for Home Affairs Shri Nityanand Rai and Shri Bandi Sanjay Kumar and Secretary, Department of Official Language, Smt. Anshuli Arya among several other
dignitaries were present.Extending greetings on Hindi Diwas and Ganesh Chaturthi, Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah said that it is a “Manikanchan Yog” a rare and auspicious coincidence, that Hindi Diwas and Ganesh Chaturthi are being celebrated on the same day. He said that Lord Ganesha, the remover of obstacles would pave the way for the development of Indian languages and remove the obstacles along that path. Recalling Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak on the occasion, Shri Shah said that the public celebration of Ganesh Utsav in Maharashtra was started by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak Maharaj in 1893. He said that Tilak Maharaj had correctly understood the pulse of the country. He deeply understood that awareness and cultural nationalism in India could be generated only through its culture and history.
Therefore, he initiated the celebration of Ganesh Utsav and the birth anniversary of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. He said that before long, both these festivals began to be celebrated across the country. These two festivals caused considerable concern for the British. Through these festivals, Tilak Maharaj generated a tremendous wave of patriotism among the people. Shri Shah said that Maharashtra is a land of traditions and expansive thinking. He said that during the Bhakti movement, several saints from Maharashtra composed works that gave considerable impetus to the Bhakti movement across the country.
He said that Maharashtra is the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who made “Swaraj, Swadharma and Swabhasha” —self-rule, one’s own faith and one’s own language, fundamental elements of Swaraj. By giving Marathi prominence in administration he created a rich repository of terminology in his own language. This system continued to serve as the basis of governance during the era of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Hindavi Swaraj.Shri Amit Shah said that today the training programmes in Hindi word processing, Hindi typing and shorthand were inaugurated. Shri Shah also presented the Rajbhasha Kirti Awards and Rajbhasha Gaurav Awards.
He congratulated all the recipients of these honours. Shri Shah said that today, publications such as ‘Shiv Anadi Hain, Anant Hain’, ‘Bharatiya Gyan Tantra: Srot Aur Swaroop’, ‘Andheron Se Ujalon Tak’, a special commemorative edition of the Department of Official Language’s journal ‘Rajbhasha Bharati’ centred on the National Song ‘Vande Mataram’, and ‘150 Chapters of Vande Mataram’ were released. CNI NEWS