We Are Not Against Hindi But Its Imposition: MK Stalin

Quoting the language policy of the Centre, the DMK chief said, by its move to impose Hindi the Centre just shows its attempt to reduce all others as secondary class citizens.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Tuesday said that the state was not against Hindi or any other language but its imposition. He said that the fire that was born out of protests ignited by Periyar against Hindi in 1938 will not die down even in 2022.

According to a report on PTI, the CM addressing a virtual meet organised by the DMK youth wing on the occasion of the remembrance day of language martyrs during the anti-Hindi struggle said, people should not take as narrow-mindedness if Tamils insist on retaining on their mother tongue instead of accepting other languages to displace it.

Tamils do not have hatred towards any other language but learning a language should be trusted with an individual instead of creating dislike for a particular language by thrusting it, he said.

The CM said, the people who are trusting Hindi just want to use that as a tool to establish their dominance. By imposing Hindi they want to ensure that only Hindi speakers gain employment in government jobs.

They want to enforce one language just as they desire for one religion for the nation, he said. 

The DMK chief said, by its move to impose Hindi the Centre just shows the attempt to reduce all others as secondary class citizens.

Hence, he said, we are opposing Hindi because they wanted our mother tongue to be displaced.