Rattled by the advice given by Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in which he told his Tamil Nadu counterpart MK Stalin to accept the National Education Policy (NEP) and the three-language formula (regional language, Hindi and English) in school and college curricula, the latter tried to open a new battlefront in his war against the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.
Stalin took to the social media and lambasted Yogi Adityanath and the BJP for telling him about the three-language policy and ridiculed the UP Chief Minister’s statement as a political black comedy. Stalin, who is also the DMK supremo, said that there is no question of his party or government going back in its stance against Hindi. He said he was not against Hindi but would oppose any attempt to impose the language on non-Hindi speaking States.
“Tamil Nadu’s fair and firm voice on Two-Language-Policy and ‘Fair Delimitation’ is echoing nationwide — and the BJP is clearly rattled. Just watch their leaders’ interviews. And now Hon’ble Yogi Adityanath wants to lecture us on hate? Spare us. This isn’t irony — it’s political black comedy at its darkest,” Stalin ridiculed the UP Chief Minister.
But his comments suffered a setback as BJP’ s Tamil Nadu state chief unleashing a strongly worded post within minutes in his social media page. Annamalai, BJP leader described Stalin as a ‘con artist’ masquerading as a protector of our constitution and our federal structure. “Usually con artists scam the rich but DMK shows no disparity; they scam both the rich and poor,” ridiculed Annamalai in his statement.
Political commentators are of the view that Annamalai’s words were a throwback into the days when Stalin struggled to make it big as a cine artist in early 1970s. “The whole country now knows that Stalin’s family owns private schools that teach three languages and more but opposes the same policy for the State’s Government schools and students. They are calling you a hypocrite, dear Stalin,” Annamalai wrote targeting the high end public school Sunshine School owned by Stalin’s daughter. Sunshine and other such schools labelled as Tamil Nadu’s super deluxe schools follow the three language policy and students who speak in Tamil and penalised,” said Josephine Jayashanthi, professor of Tamil and a well respected novelist.
She pointed out that Stalin didn’t tell anything about the rest of the country, including the South Indian States where Hindi is a compulsory language. “Stalin forgets the fact that Prime Minister and Home Minister whom he targets in his diatribe speak Gujarati which too is an ancient language,” said Jayashanthi.
Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Sounderarajan cautioned the people of the State about Stalin’s mission to divide the people based on religion and said it would not work in the State. “He is trying to divert the attention of the people from the daily murders, rapes and dacoity happening across the State. The DMK has institutionalised corruption and it is of gargantuan level,” said Sounderarajan.
Stalin is upset over reports about the revival of the AIADMK-BJP alliance in the State and this could upset his
plans to retain power in the 2026 Assembly election.
