Hindi Imposition Row: As Tamil Nadu CM Stalin Wages Battle In opposition to NEP, BJP’s ‘Sundar Pichai’ Poser To DMK | India Information

The Nationwide Training Coverage row has intensified with Southern states protesting in opposition to the three-language coverage. Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin is main the opposition protest on the difficulty and has even termed the NEP a ‘saffron coverage’. Now, the Tamil Nadu BJP president Okay Annamalai has hit again on the ruling DMK minister whereas sharing a video of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who hails from Madurai.
Stalin’s ‘Saffron Coverage’ Cost
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Okay Stalin on Wednesday alleged that it was not the Nationwide Training Coverage however a ‘saffron coverage’ geared toward creating Hindi and never the nation.
“We oppose NEP as it’s going to fully destroy Tamil Nadu’s schooling progress. The NEP doesn’t settle for reservation that’s social justice. This coverage denies the help quantity to SCs, STs and Different Backward Lessons,” Stalin alleged.
Stalin additional mentioned, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi, I’ve an enchantment! Attempt to develop India fairly than Hindi. Sanskrit can’t be developed even in the event you spend 1000’s of crores. You’ll spend crores to develop a language that isn’t spoken by the folks. Will you betray our Tamil language that’s recognised in a number of nations and spoken by the folks?”
BJP Counters DMK Declare
Taking to X, BJP Tamil Nadu chief Okay Annamalai mentioned that the DMK minister’s son studied French and English because the two-language coverage and never the Tamil and English/French.
Hitting again at Tamil Nadu Minister Dr P Thiaga Rajan, Annamalai mentioned, “Learnt about DMK Minister Thiru Thiaga Rajan’s response to my query yesterday on the hypocrisy of DMK Ministers permitting their kids/ grandchildren to study three languages at school whereas compelling Govt faculty college students to study solely two languages. Thiru PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan responded that his sons had a two-language components throughout their education however didn’t point out which these two languages had been. That two-language components was – First language – English, Second language – French/ Spanish. Is that this the two-language components of the TN Govt?”
Learnt about DMK Minister Thiru @ptrmadurai avl’s response to my query yesterday on the hypocrisy of DMK Ministers permitting their kids/ grandchildren to study three languages at school whereas compelling Govt faculty college students to study solely two languages.
Thiru PTR Palanivel… pic.twitter.com/X5BFhGghrw
— Okay.Annamalai (@annamalai_k) March 13, 2025
Sharing an outdated interview video of Google CEO Sundar Pichai, the BJP chief mentioned, “We’re solely asking why the TN govt is stopping our Govt faculty college students from studying an Indian language as their third language, together with Tamil & English and even a world language as a 3rd language on the secondary stage, as proposed in NEP 2020. Whereas we want each his sons the very best in scaling larger heights of their respective careers, we additionally need our govt faculty college students to have an identical alternative to study a number of languages. Moreover, Google CEO Thiru Sundar Pichai studied three languages in his faculty, together with Hindi, opposite to Thiaga Rajan’s declare.”
The DMK has sparked a political storm over the NEP’s three-language coverage alleging that the Narendra Modi authorities is attempting to impose Hindi on southern states, a cost rejected by Union Training Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.