Telangana govt declares Urdu as second official language
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday declared Urdu as the state's second official language. Every office in the state will now have an Urdu speaking officer, he added. Amid claims by the Opposition that the move was "appeasement politics", Rao said that the demand to make Urdu a second language had been there for a long time.