Siddharth Suryanarayan, who just likes to be called Siddharth, is an actor who predominantly works in the Tamil and Telugu film industry. He shot to fame amongst the Hindi-speaking audience after he starred in the film ‘Rang De Basanti’ alongside Aamir Khan. He was born in a Tamil-speaking family so it seems to be possible that his parents aren’t very fluent in speaking the Hindi language.
In a bitter experience Siddharth and his family faced at Madurai airport in Tamil Nadu, the CIFS personnel allegedly spoke in Hindi repeatedly despite being asked to speak in English, reported NDTV.
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Siddharth took to Instagram to allege that he was “harassed for 20 mins” and the CIFS made his senior parents remove coins from their bags. When they protested, the CIFS personnel allegedly said “in India this is how it is”.
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His allegations left the internet divided. On one hand, there were people who slammed the authorities of Madurai Airport for imposing Hindi on non-Hindi-speaking passengers and demanded strict action to be taken against the CIFS personnel who were on duty.
#MaduraiAirport #CISF @AAI_Official @aaimduairport It is not compulsory to speak only Hindi. Such an act is highly reprehensible. This kind of imposition of Hindi should definitely stop the trend of speaking only Hindi.
— T.C.ilango (@TCilango) December 28, 2022
I have requested the @aaimduairport to conduct an enquiry into the allegations of actor Siddharth about the improper conduct of CISF personnel in Madurai airport who demanded to be spoken to in Hindi#Siddharth #Actor #Tamil #StopHindiImposition pic.twitter.com/BmvtxB3lss
— Su Venkatesan MP (@SuVe4Madurai) December 28, 2022
Kindly educate the CISF at #MaduraiAirport & inform @CISFHQrs that speaking in English is acceptable & Hindi is not a national language. In solidarity with #Siddharth ! The CISF officials need a bit of soft skills training.
— Dr Edmond Fernandes (@Edmondfernandes) December 28, 2022
Yes, this happened to some of my family members too. It’s the CISF staff behaving like this during security checks!
When a family member said in Tamil that she doesn’t know Hindi, the guy replied rudely “Why are you speaking in Tamil? Don’t you know rashtra basaha is Hindi?”!!!
— S.Akash (@S_Akasham) December 28, 2022
Why would a tamilnadu airport official converse in Hindi to a Tamil Nadu passenger?! Doesn’t make any sense.
— kowcika manohar (@KowcikaM19) December 28, 2022
On the other hand, many pointed out that taking out coins from bags is a regular procedure and not “harassment”, as Siddharth called it. They highlighted how rules are the same for everyone and considering that Siddharth has worked in Hindi films, it is expected it would be okay for him to speak in that language.
#MaduraiAirport @aaimduairport Rules are same for everyone. Don't let any flop star avoid the rules. Well done.
— Prasanna (@nonameboy456) December 28, 2022
So this flop actor #Siddharth crying ocean about so called harassment by security personnels at Madurai Airport. Someone should teach him :
1. Speaking hindi is not harassment
2. Its CISF not CRPF (moron)
3. They are CG appointed security personnel and not JOBLESS like him. pic.twitter.com/F8rsxnIQf4— Akhil Hindu🇮🇳 (@ak_glg06) December 28, 2022
His parents were asked to remove coins from their bags .. that’s harassment for him when the law is same for everyone .. i read that the security at Madurai airport is handled by the CISF but he blames CRPF .. biggest harassment that they were spoken in Hindi not English 🤡 https://t.co/BD1egc9cSx
— exsecular (@ExSecular) December 28, 2022
many crpf jawans cant speak english. as hindi is the main language of the forces. Go take a tour of Madras regiment in Wellington, tamil nadu. each and every madrasi speaks hindi there. And they're more professional than you. #MaduraiAirport
— Hip-Te-Hop (@ganwaarAadmi) December 28, 2022
Looks like they want only Tamilians in Tamilnadu airports.Tamil pilots, Tamil airhostess and they will not fly to any place where they don’t know Tamil. Meanwhile their son acts in Hindi movies.
— Biju (@Straightalkr) December 28, 2022
What are your views on this incident?