The ongoing debate over the alleged imposition of a third language under the National Education Policy (NEP) in Tamil Nadu has escalated into a fierce political slugfest between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) alliance.
On Friday, while Union home minister Amit Shah asked MK Stalin to commence engineering and medical education in Tamil in the state, BJP state chief K Annamalai slammed the Tamil Nadu chief minister for “swinging” his “paper word against the delusional Hindi imposition”.
Amit Shah and Annamalai’s statements came after Tamil Nadu chief minister Stalin said the NEP was like “an LKG student lecturing a PhD holder”, adding that Tamil Nadu has already achieved many of the policy’s goals.
Targeting the chief minister on the language issue, Amit Shah said the Narendra Modi government effected changes and now ensured that the CISF aspirants could write the exam in their respective regional languages.
“Now the PM Narendra Modi government has ensured that the exam can be written in Tamil too,” news agency PTI quoted the home minister as saying at the 56th Raising Day of the CISF at RTC Thakkolam in Ranipet, about 70 km from Chennai.
