Protest against English

NEW DELHI, April 30: The Bharatiya Bhasha Sammelan, an organisation set up to defend the interests of Indian languages, protested today against the decision of some States to impose English at primary level too.

The chairman of the Sammelan, Ved Pratap Vaidik, in a letter to the Chief Ministers of Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab, criticised them for pursuing a wrong course for helping the poor and rural classes to get jobs. Instead, the compulsory use of English should be abolished at the recruitment stage, the Sammelan suggested.