Tamil Nadu: Hindi Letters On Nameboard At Chennai Fort Railway Station Defaced, Case Registered

This comes days after Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin stoked the Hindi language row by criticising food standard authority FSSAI's decision of the imposition of the language on curd labels.

The miscreants left the Tamil and English letters but used black paint over the Hindi letters.

Source : ANI

New Delhi: Police registered case against unidentified persons who allegedly smeared black paint on the Hindi letters on a name board at Chennai Fort railway station, news agency ANI reported.

According to reports, the miscreants left the Tamil and English letters but used black paint over the Hindi letters to deface the railway station name board.

Tamil Nadu | Unidentified persons yesterday blackened the Hindi portion of the signboard at Chennai Fort railway station. Railway Protection Force police have registered a case against unidentified persons. The signboard was restored to its original form. pic.twitter.com/1UI4qN75C1

— ANI (@ANI) April 1, 2023

Railway Police said that they have registered a case and are looking for two men who, according to passengers, were drunk and allegedly committed the crime.

According to the officials, police is finding it difficult to identify the miscreants as several CCTVs in the railway station have not been operating properly.

Later, the Hindi letters of Chennai Fort railway station were repainted on the nameboard.

Notably, this comes days after Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin stoked the Hindi language row by criticising food standard authority FSSAI's decision of the imposition of the language on curd labels.

Taking to his Twitter, the chief minister said, "The unabashed insistence of Hindi Imposition has come to the extent of directing us to label even a curd packet in Hindi, relegating Tamil & Kannada in our own states. Such brazen disregard to our mother tongues will make sure those responsible are banished from the South forever."

Following FSSAI’s statement, Minister for Milk and Dairy development in Tamil Nadu, SM Nasar told the local media that the instructions from FSSAI will not be implemented in the southern state and that curd packets will continue to be labelled as “thayir” instead of “dahi”, the Tamil equivalent of the word curd.

It is to be noted that the FSSAI rolled back its notification released for making it mandatory to use the word ‘Dahi’ on the printed labels of the curd packets sold in the state.