 "Bhupesh Baghel")
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding inclusion of Chhattisgarhi dialect in the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution.
In his letter, the Chief Minister said that it has been twenty years of the formation of Chhattisgarh as the 26th state of the Indian Republic, but in terms of culture, the state has a separate identity in ancient history.
"Chhattisgarhi dialect has a history of its own. The grammar of the dialect, prepared by Hiralal Kavyopadhyay and edited and translated by George AK Grierson, was published in the Journal of the Asiatic Society
