The right-wing appears to think the language as a foreign import but history shows quite the opposite.
Such attacks on Urdu, many believe, is part of a larger push to marginalise India's Muslim population.
"That severing may serve the current government's interests, but it is a cruel denial of heritage for everyone else."The BBC tried to reach out to three BJP leaders in connection with this story but met with no response. Opponents of the language say that Urdu belongs to Muslims whereas Hindus only speak Hindi. But history and lived experiences show quite the opposite.
This 'Urdu' was not seen as a Muslim language, as it is today, but had a class element - it was the tongue spoken by the elite of north India, which included Hindus as well. "So both the languages rest on a shared grammatical base," Dr Rai explains, "but both Hindi and Urdu have also for political reasons developed myths of origin" .
The division was strengthened under British rule, who began to identify Hindi with Hindus, and Urdu with Muslims. But the portrayal of Urdu as foreign is also not new in right-wing discourse.
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