International Desk: Indian media has claimed Bengali as their own language. In the US election, four languages ​​appeared on New York's ballot paper along with English. Indian languages ​​like Hindi are not listed but Bengali, Chinese, Spanish and Korean languages ​​are.

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

Indian media The Hindu headlined, Bengali, the only Indian language on the New York ballot paper. And as The Economic Times headlined, only one Indian language featured on the New York ballot. But it is not Hindi.

According to Wikipedia , Bengali is the official, national and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98 percent of Bangladeshis using 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.

Incidentally, ahead of this year's presidential election of the United States, 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.

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A case under the US Voting Rights Act of 1965 was filed two years ago in a New York court. The plaintiffs demanded that New York's areas with high immigrant populations require ballot papers in at least one immigrant language in addition to English. Later, the New York state administration and the litigants agreed to publish ballot papers in these four languages. Source: Ekushey Television.