Can’t ask govt. to recognize a language as official one: SC

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Subject : Polity

Section: Constitution

Concept :

The Supreme Court on Friday said it cannot direct the Centre to include Rajasthani as an official language in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud said the subject of the petition concerns a policy matter.
SC said that this is a policy matter and not for the courts to give a
The court referred to a 1997 reported decision of the Supreme Court in the Kanhaiya Lal Sethia case to note that “to include or not to include a particular language in the VIIIth Schedule is a policy matter of the Union”.

Article 32

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Article 32 deals with the ‘Right to Constitutional Remedies’, or affirms the right to move the Supreme Court by appropriate proceedings for the enforcement of the rights conferred in Part III of the Constitution.
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