International Desk: Four languages ​​along with English have been placed on the ballot paper of New York in the presidential election of the United States of America. They are Bengali, Chinese, Spanish and Korean languages. But there was no Indian Hindi language. As a result, the Indian media has claimed the Bengali language as their own.

On Monday (November 4), Indian media published news claiming Bengali as their own language.

It can be seen that the Indian media, The Hindu, headlined 'Bangla, the only Indian language on the New York ballot paper'. And The Economic Times headlined 'Only Indian language features on New York ballot'. But it is not Hindi.

According to Wikipedia, Bengali is the official, national and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh. Whereas 98 percent of Bangladeshis use Bengali as their first language. But Bengali is the second most spoken language in India.

On February 21, 1952, the students shed fresh blood to demand that Bengali be made the state language. As a result of this, after a long movement and struggle, Bengali was not only established as the state language, but also achieved the independent sovereign country of Bengali.

It should be noted that in view of this year's US presidential election , four foreign languages, one of which is Bengali, have been placed on the ballot paper of New York state along with English. A large part of the total immigrants in the United States live in various cities of the state, including New York City. According to government statistics, more than 200 languages ​​are spoken in New York. But Bengali has been chosen among so many languages.

A case under the US Voting Rights Act of 1965 was filed two years ago in a New York court. Later, on the basis of the agreement between the New York state administration and the litigants,
the decision to publish the ballot papers in these four languages ​​was taken.