Centre's 3-Language Policy ‘Need of the hour’: BJP's Annamalai
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New Delhi: Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai has launched a campaign in support of the Centre’s three-language policy implementing under the National Education Policy (NEP) calling it the need of the hour, according to NDTV.
The campaign aims to gather one crore signatures engaging the support of students, parents, and the general public for NEP 2020 to present them to President Droupadi Murmu, while most political parties in the state including ruling DMK and the principal Opposition AIADMK are fiercely opposing the policy.
K Annamalai told a press conference that after the BJP came to power at the Centre many trains got named after Tamil icons as in the case of the Sengol Express.
Calling out the ruling DMK, K Annamalai asked why MK Stalin’s DMK not named even one train after a Tamil icon nevertheless it was in alliance from 2006 and 2014, adding ‘Why did you not start Kashi Tamil Samagam?’.
Terming the Centre’s naming of flagship scheme in Hindi not intentional, he said it was better than the Congress-led UPA naming schemes after Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
Annamalai called Stalin a ‘hypocrite’ after the Chief Minister attacked PM Modi over Centre allocating fund for Sanskrit-Hindi and Tamil and termed it Hindi imposition.
Stalin alleged that the difference in allocation of funds for Tamil and Sankrit suggests that they are "enemies" of Tamil, according to NDTV.
However, the BJP claimed that PM Modi held Tamil in high esteem with the three-language formula aiming at the growth of languages of the state.
