NEW DELHI, June 20, 2014 (AFP) - Regional parties on Friday criticised moves by India's new nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote Hindi as the government's official language on social media, demanding English be used instead.
The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, which swept to power in May, instructed all ministries and public offices to use Hindi in its official communication on social media last month.
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