CM is anti-Maithili'

CM is anti-Maithili'

PATNA: The state Congress chairman of its media department Prem Chandra Mishra on Friday dubbed CM Nitish Kumar's interest in Mithila and its cultural icon Vidyapati as phoney.

The CM on the day visited Vidyapati's birth place Bisfi village in Madhubani district. Mishra alleged that the CM, in fact, had no interest in the promotion of Maithili language. He also said that the Nitish government, in 2007, removed Maithili language and literature from the curriculum of Bihar Secondary Examination Board (BSEB), and placed it as an optional subject.

Dubbing the CM as anti-Maithili, Mishra also said that the government removed Maithili language from the BSEB's curriculum, and in its place included Bangla language. This only reflected the prejudice of the CM towards Maithili language, he added.

According to him, after inclusion of Maithili in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, it was included in the curricula of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC). In the situation, it should not have been removed from the curriculum of the BSEB, Mishra said, adding that the Congress was not opposed to Bangla and Urdu languages, but the removal of Maithili from the school curriculum was not justified.

Author: TNN

Source: The Times Of India