Venkaiah calls for people’s movement to protect Telugu

‘Governments are also obliged to promote the language to the extent possible’

Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu has stressed the need for a people’s movement to protect and propagate Telugu. “The governments are also obliged to promote the language to the extent possible. It has to be a joint effort by all the stakeholders to pass the language on to posterity,” Mr. Venkaiah Naidu said while addressing a virtual meeting on the promotion of Telugu language organised by ‘Telugu Kootami’ and ‘Veedhi Arugu’, the platforms striving for the cause, on Saturday. Pointing to the manner in which countries such as Germany, Russia, China, Australia, Canada and Portugal kept foreign languages at bay without despising them, he said such an approach was worth emulating.