The unusual choice of Malayalam language comes months before the April 2026 Kerala Assembly elections and amid constant debate over “Hindi imposition” in the Southern states

New Delhi: Union home minister Amit Shah’s routine acknowledgement to a letter by Kerala MP John Brittas has drawn attention for its unusual use of Malayalam and evoked curiosity about the Centre’s stand on languages. Rajya Sabha MP Brittas on Sunday said that while Shah had responded several times before to him, but for the first time a letter written by him on October 22 to raise concerns on the August 2025 notification of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that introduced ‘chargesheeting’ as a ground for cancelling Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) registration, came with the usual short acknowledgement but written in Ma

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