Tamil should be medium of instruction for minorities too — BJP

CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 30: The State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has urged the Tamil Nadu Government to clarify whether the order on Tamil as medium of instruction in primary schools included schools run by religious minorities.

In a statement on Tuesday, BJP State general secretary L Ganesan referred to the `propaganda’ that schools managed by religious minorities would be exempt from the order. The order would be accepted by people if it was meant for all schools, he said.

In the BJP’s view, if minorities were to be exempted from the framework of the order, parents who had the “affinity and obsession with the English language” would get their children admitted to minority schools, leaving “schools run by Tamils in limbo”.

Welcoming the order, Ganesan demanded that the Government be firm and unambiguous in implementing it.