The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL) has decided to release the book which is an Urdu translation of Bhavishya Ka Bharat- a Hindi compilation of RSS head Bhagwat’s three-day lecture series delivered in 2018.
The Muslim Mirror quoted officials from NCPUL sayint that the publication was a violation of the NCPUL’s guidelines which outline that “no book by a political leader or any sectarian material can be translated or published” by the organisation. Notably, NCPUL is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).
Te report further quoted Urdu poet and former vice-chairman of Delhi Urdu Academy, Majid Ahmed as saying, “This is gross misuse of the funds of NCPUL, whose purpose is to promote Urdu by helping out writers and poets. A book which carries the ideology of an organisation is being promoted in blatant violation of rules and ethics.”
THe NCPUL however has refuted the allegation and said that the NCPUL has translated Gita and Gurugranth Sahib in the past addin, “Mohan Bhagwat’s discussions hold coherent discussion on culture, brotherhood, peace and security of the country.”
Interestingly, no major newspaper published in Urdu language has so far carried any report on this gross violation of the NCPUL’s guidelines by none other than its chief himself.
There have been rising allegtaions of the Bhartiya Janta party trying to intruge and inflitrate into every institute and control them as well.
The report quoted famous journalist Tarique Anwar as saying, “It is the characteristics of an ideological group to take control of institutions by planting their people, but this government has seemingly crossed all limits by recklessly appointing incompetent people. The Congress too did the same, but it never compromised on quality. That it appointed people having soft corner for the party, but ensured that the competent lot get the entry in any institution. After Muslim Rashtriya Manch, the “RSS is using the Urdu language to instil its divisive agenda” among the Urdu section.”
The Social media did not however remain silent. Nadeem , Noted rights activist in a Facebook post wrote, “Ae Urdu tere anjaam pe rona aaya (Oh Urdu! I feel crying over your fate), by tagging the NCPUL’s invitation card. Mr Khan said he was not surprised at all. However, he strongly put, “I am interested to see how many ‘Urdu lovers’ are going to grace the occasion.” He concluded, “This is the litmus test for Urdu lovers.”
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The book is going to be released on April 5 at New Delhi’s India International Centre.