Mumbai : A day after dispatching 4,000 postcards to President Ram Nath Kovind, Maharashtra on Monday made a strong pitch to the Centre to accord the status of ‘Classical Language’ for Marathi by February 27 – celebrated as Marathi Language Day.
Marathi Language Minister Subhash Desai went to New Delhi and called on Union Culture Minister G. Kishan Reddy and discussed the long-pending issue with him.
“We have submitted a letter and a booklet to him detailing how the state government has completed all the formalities and why Marathi deserves to be given the status of a ‘Classical Language’ at the earliest,” he said.
Desai said that Reddy was extremely open to the suggestion and even conveyed that there is no doubt that Marathi deserves the honour.
–IANS