Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar today said that the issue of medium of instruction (MoI) in schools should be resolved through talks and not law.
"I have said it time and again. Even on the floor of the House...I have repeated that bringing the Bill on MoI would not solve the issue. The only difference it would make is that it will make it a law," Parsekar told reporters.
"Making a law will not change the situation. We have to find out amicable solution by discussions with all the stakeholders. I feel that the current status on MoI should not be changed," he added.
The Chief Minister was responding to a number of questions over the recent verbal tiff between RSS and BJP leaders over the issue.
Goa's RSS Chief Subhash Velingkar who is also spearheading Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM), a forum propagating regional languages as MOI, had castigated BJP led government.
BJP MP Narendra Sawaikar, while reacting to Velingkar had accused him of playing to the gallery.
Goa government has announced regional languages as MoI, but has also given grants to the schools teaching in English medium which has irked the BBSM.
It had warned to begin campaign against the state government if it did not withdraw the grant given to English medium schools.
