The fact that every Punjabi has at least one relative in their “Caannaada” is universal. And, thanks to their presence in that part of the world that now their language has acquired the status of being one of the official language in the Canadian Parliament. Just 4 years after Punjabi became the third most common language in Canada, it has acquired the status of official language in Parliament after English and French.
It happened so, after the election of 20 Punjabi speaking people in the House of Commons. There were actually 23 people elected from the South Asian origin, out of which three namely, Chandra Arya,Gary Anandasangaree and Maryam Monsef could not speak Punjabi. The rest 20 members of House of Commons are well versed with Punjabi. Among the newly-elected Punjabi-speaking MPs, 14 are males and six are females.
“The voice of the Indo-Canadian community will now be very well represented in the Parliament. In the overall aspect of it, the South Asian community won,” MP Deepak Obhrai of Conservative Party said.As per the Canadian statistics, 430,705 residents identified Punjabi as their mother tongue and thus making it the most common language which had to be adopted in the House of Commons. Interestingly, 20 Punjabi-speaking MPs represent almost six per cent of the House of Commons.
Now this is surely a reason to celebrate! & how!? Balle Balle!