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This is an archive article published on October 18, 2022
Tamil Nadu adopts resolution against ‘imposition’ of Hindi
Imposition of Hindi would turn Tamil Nadu people into third-class citizens, says TN Chief Minister MK Stalin
Tamil Nadu Government adopted a resolution in the Assembly against the purported imposition of Hindi by the Centre.
The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution against “imposition” of Hindi and urged the Centre not to implement recommendations of the report of the Parliamentary committee on Official Language.
The resolution, put forward by Chief Minister M K Stalin, was passed “unanimously” after BJP members staged a walkout and AIADMK MLAs were suspended. It stated that many suggestions in the recent report given to the President by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the House panel chairman are “harmful to people of non-Hindi speaking States, including Tamil Nadu”.
The resolution noted: “This House is worried that recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee go against the two-language policy resolution moved and passed by former CM, C.N. Annadurai. They also go against what the then-PM [Jawaharlal] Nehru promised to states that don’t speak Hindi, and they go against the use of English as official language, made clear by resolutions passed in 1968 and 1976.”
In this scenario, the resolution stated, Tamil Nadu is “once again being forced to defend mother tongue Tamil, to keep English as the official language, to keep all 22 languages in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution, and to protect the rights of the people in States that don’t speak Hindi”.
Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin at the state Assembly, Tuesday. (PTI)
Speaking in the Assembly before moving the resolution, Stalin said, “I think it’s right to remember those who died or went to jail to protect the Tamil language. Language is our life, our emotions, and our future,” he said.
Stating that BJP, “which is in charge of the Union government, likes to force Hindi on people”, he pointed out that India is a diverse country with people from different cultures, languages, communities, and religions. “If Kendriya Vidyalaya and IIT can only have people who speak Hindi, they are trying to say there is no room for people who speak other languages in these institutions. They don’t want people to learn how to speak English. They say they care about the state language…but their hearts really only beat for Hindi…”
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