During the question hour of the Lok Sabha, Shashi Tharoor, MP from Thiruvananthapuram objected to the move to make Hindi an official language of the United Nations saying, "If tomorrow, someone from Tamil Nadu or from West Bengal becomes the Prime Minister, why should we force him to speak in Hindi at the UN?" This was in response to a question by BJP MPs Laxman Giluwa and Rama Devi to Sushma Swaraj, asking what steps were being taken to make Hindi an official language in the UN.
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