‘Nehru, Indira were not fools’: JNU VC says uniformity in religion, language cannot be imposed

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‘Nehru, Indira were not fools’: JNU VC says uniformity in religion, language cannot be imposed

Uniformity in religion, attire or language should not be imposed in India, Santishree D Pandit, the vice-chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University, told PTI on Wednesday.“Both [Jawaharlal] Nehru and Indira Gandhi were not fools to talk about the tri-language formula because, in India, uniformity does not work in any form,” Pandit told the news agency in an interaction earlier this week.In the Hindi speaking states, the three-language formula…