A Bharatiya Janata Party councillor in Delhi has triggered a row after posting a video on social media in which she is seen threatening to bar a man from teaching football at a public park if he does not learn Hindi within a month.
Reports said that the man was African, but it was unclear which country he is a citizen of. He provides football coaching at a municipal park in the Mayur Vihar area.
The video shows Renu Chaudhary telling the man: “You have not learnt Hindi. Why have you not learnt it? If you do not learn Hindi within a month…then take the park away from him”.
The councillor, who represents the Patparganj ward, also said, “If you make your living here, you must learn the local language as well”.
The man has lived in the area for nearly 15 years, NDTV reported.
Chaudhary told The Hindu that she had visited the park to address unrelated complaints about the park made by residents.
Defending her remarks, Chaudhary was quoted as saying: “Anyone living and working in the country for years should make an effort to understand and speak the local language, just as we respect rules and language of the land when we go abroad.”
She said that as most people in India speak in Hindi, there is nothing...
