Respect one's mother tongue

Kerala C M Pinarayi Vijayan in an NDTV interview said the BJP and RSS were isolated in the state with no support from the people. May be it right or wrong my point is the poor performance of Pinarayi in English before the interviewer.

Knowing English is not a big issue as even beggers of US and Britain speak it fluently. Since our mother tongue is Malayalam, majority of us are not good at English. This is evident from the  performance  of Kerala MPs like P K Sreemathi, K C Venugopal or M B Rajesh in the Parliament.

Many of the world leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and others prefer their mother tongue to English when they communicate with world leaders. Why can't our state leaders prefer Malayalam for interview instead of sitting as a laughing stock before Oxford trained channel interviewers? If one gives due respect to his mother tongue then there arises no question of humiliation for not knowing English.

K A Solaman