Chief Minister MK Stalin’s party DMK has historically led the opposition to Hindi imposition.
Chennai:
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin today reportedly told the Parliament’s Language Committee that the centrally run educational institutions should be treated as second class citizens apart from English speaking Hindi alone and second class citizens as second class citizens. Put down and rule. “Hindi or the local language”, and that the United Nations be asked to make Hindi one of its official languages.
“Don’t impose another language war on us,” said Mr. Stalin, directing his words at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose party the BJP, as a declared policy, supported Hindi as a link between all states. does.
“The government should consider all the Eighth Schedule languages as official languages keeping in mind the development of science and technology,” MK Stalin said. 22 languages including Hindi, Tamil and English have been officially recognized in Schedule 8 of the Constitution of India.
Mr Stalin’s party DMK – previously led by his father M Karunanidhi – was one of the drivers of the historic anti-Hindi protests in the South 50 years ago.
‘Even our neighboring states will not accept it’ [imposition of Hindi]said Mr Stalin.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah heads the Parliament’s Official Language Committee to review progress in Hindi usage, which submitted its latest report to President Draupadi Murmu last month.
Recommending that local languages be given priority over English in all states, the committee divided the states and union territories into three groups on the basis of the use of Hindi.
In Category ‘A’, where the committee wants “100 percent use of Hindi”, are UP, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
PM Modi’s home state Gujarat is in Category B along with Maharashtra, Punjab and the Union Territories of Chandigarh, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Rest of India including the southern states falls in Group ‘C’.
It is up to the President to accept the report or not.