VARANASI: Invoking Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the Hindu nationalist ideologue, activist and writer, here on Saturday to put across his views on Hindi, Union home Minister Amit Shah said he (Savarkar) enriched Hindi by inducting many words in his ‘Hindi Shabdkosh’.
He was speaking after inaugurating the two-day Akhil Bharatiya Rajbhasha Sammelan. Citing Savarkar’s example, Shah said, “Had it not been for Veer Savarkar, we would have been using English words only.” Shah also said that very few people know that Savarkar worked a lot for ‘Swabhasha’ and Rajbhasha’.
“He made a Hindi dictionary and introduced many words. Time has come to make Hindi flexible for the wide acceptance of people,” the minister said.