Yadav was speaking after dedicating to people the first news portal of the UP government www.Upnews360.In and the website of Samajwadi Shravan Yatra Scheme here.
"We are not against English," he said, adding but stress should be laid on use of Hindi in everyday work, alongwith English, so as to ensure that those knowing English do not get any special benefit.
To a question on his government's view on the central government issuing circulars to officials to join the International Yoga Day tomorrow, Yadav said, "India is a free country and people are free to do whatever they like. However, some people do yoga every day."
"We had also done yoga under the supervision of the founder of 'The Art of Living Sri Sri Ravishanker recently but did not publicise the programme, although we could have done so," Yadav said, underlining the importance of yoga as a very useful thing for every person, but said there is no need for its publicity or forcing anyone to do it.
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To a query on senior BJP leader L K Advani's view that emergency can happen again, Yadav said, journalists too then should remain prepared for the harassment they underwent during it in the 1970s.
Earlier while launching the news portal, Yadav said it will make all information about the government schemes and programmes available to common people and help them get benefits from them.
Emphasising on the importance of technology, he said it was important to keep pace with it in the present times.