M K Stalin,Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
LIC has clarified that there was a technical issue in the website which has already been resolved
Posting a screenshot of the LIC of India webpage containing Hindi, the chief minister said in a post on social media platform ‘X’: “the LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even the option to select English is displayed in Hindi!” This, he claimed, was nothing but cultural and language imposition by force, trampling on India’s diversity
Chennai/Mumbai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took strong exception to the use of Hindi language on the website of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, and said that the website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for imposing Hindi.
Posting a screenshot of the LIC of India webpage containing Hindi, the chief minister said in a post on social media platform ‘X’: “the LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even the option to select English is displayed in Hindi!” This, he claimed, was nothing but cultural and language imposition by force, trampling on India’s diversity.
However, the corporation has clarified that there was a technical issue in the website which has already been resolved .
The issue has been resolved now,” said a senior LIC official on Tuesday.
“Our corporate website was not shuffling the language page due to some technical problem. The issue is resolved now, and the website is available in English/Hindi language. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted,” said LIC in a post on social media platform X.
“LIC grew with the patronage of all Indians. How dare it betray the majority of its contributors? We demand an immediate rollback of this linguistic tyranny. #StopHindiImposition,” the chief minister said in the post.
with inputs from agencies