AIADMK members take oath in TAMIL in Rajya Sabha

Everybody should have proud on his mother tongue.

:) :)

Atleast for this cause both DMK and ADMK have same stand. I expect both DMK and ADMK have to work together in Loksabha and Rajya sabha for the goodness of TN.

Yes ! It is their responsibility to work for the welfare of Tamil Nadu and our beloved country India. :) :)

Tamil is one of the languages recognized in Indian constitution and so one may take oath in Tamil. What is significant that another M.P. namely Pratap Singh Rudi of BJP took oath in Bhojpuri- a Bihari dialect. But Bhojpuri is not recognized. Hence, his oath in Bhojpuri being invalid, he had to again take oath in Hindi.
The members have the right to take oath in any Indian language including English. This is not so important. What they contribute in debates and other public activities is more important.

For the purpose of promoting their language, everyone should take oath in their own mother tongue so that their language pride remains in tact. And also the points raised in the parliament should also be in their own mother tongue.

Thats nice... :)

Thats the respect they give to Mother Tongue... Good move!!! :)

Yes you are right deepti!

Hindi mother toungue people will take oath in hindi why others need to take oath in hindi and english .

It is perfectly okay to take oath in any language so far as rules permit. But the language issue should not overshadow the real problems that the M.P.s should discuss. In all fairness, English should be used in Parliament and regional languages, including Hindi, in state assemblies.

We are talking about mother language; Is there any father language??

:laugh: :laugh: :woohoo: :woohoo:

If yes, Please let me know!! :dry:

Well Kumaresh nice question..I think its English :laugh: :P :) and is father of all.But in India Sankrit can be considered as father languages. However we dont known the language at all..

Nice question and very good response Rajani :P:P:P :P :)

I say there is only mother language and Sanskrit is the origin for all other languages... :laugh: :lol:

Tamil is mother of all languages in the world'
COIMBATORE: The Tamil language is older than Sanskrit and is "the mother of all languages in the world," said Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Wednesday.

Setting the stage for an academic debate on the antiquity of Tamil language at the World Classical Tamil conference in Coimbatore, the CM said more than 20 Tamil words had been found in Vedas by linguist Robert Caldwell, who coined the term Dravidian languages and first declared Tamil as a classical language.

"From this we learn that Tamil had an existence prior to Sanskrit," the CM said.

"Tamil is not only an international language, it is like a mother of all languages in the world,"' he said. Tamil scholar Devaneya Pavanar had established that Tamil is the primary classical language of the world, he said.

"Root Tamil words exist in many languages of the world in various modifications but retaining the semantic meaning. In the world languages, it is difficult to find a basic word that does not have some link with the Tamil word. Hence, Tamil has the status of the mother tongue in the world," the CM said.

No matter which ever language we known or our mother togue...SAB KA BAAP is ENGLISH.. :)

Thats the problem with this guys they think they are seperate from India. Its stupidity.

Kumaresh- Mother is closes to baby and so she is first teacher. That is the language first picked up by a child is his mother tongue.
Instead of mother tongue, we may also use the phrase- 'first language'. Although Punjabi is my mother tongue, I am more at home with Hindi. so, I say that Hindi is my first language and English second.

@jayen
I do not understand your statement , can you eloborate? are you blaming karunanidhi or me?

Why do they take oath for. i dont get it, The oath is just a word these days.

Read the topic carefully, and goto the source link if you want more information. everything is specified there. this has happened before 2 months !