BJP Tamil Nadu President K Annamalai NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday took a swipe at Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin over asking more fund for Tamil than “dead language like Sanskrit.”In a post on X, BJP Tamil Nadu President K Annamalai questioned Stalin’s efforts to spread Tamil beyond the state and claimed that the Tamil Nadu CM deliberately despirtualised Thiruvalluvar to suit his propaganda. “Thiru @mkstalin, instead of listing what you have done to propagate our Tamil language beyond the confines of our State, knowing there aren’t any, you’ve decided to move on to the next topic. It was not our claim; it is a reality, and the Sengol today also stands as a testament in the Parliament to our Hon PM Thiru @narendramodi avl’s commitment to spreading the Tamil language and culture.His comments came after Stalin on Wednesday called out BJP’s actions, urging them to make Tamil an official language, halt Hindi imposition, and allot more fund for Tamil than Sanskrit.Stalin said, “Rather than installing Sengol in Parliament, uninstall Hindi from Union government offices in Tamil Nadu. Instead of hollow praise, make Tamil an official language on par with Hindi and allot more funds for Tamil than a dead language like Sanskrit.”He added, “Stop the desperate attempts to saffronise Thiruvalluvar and declare his timeless classic, Thirukkural, as India’s National Book.”Replying to Stalin’s post, Annamalai said, “Only a Hypocrite would ask about the increased allocation of funds to Sanskrit over Tamil, knowing the rationality behind it very well. We are calling you a “HYPOCRITE” because this is the allocation for the development of Sanskrit & Tamil between 2006-14. Sanskrit: Rs 675.36 Crores Tamil: Rs 75.05 Crores What were you doing back then?”He also asked the Tamil Nadu CM what he did when former home minister Thiru P Chidambaram submitted over 170 recommendations to popularise Hindi nationwide. “Thiru MK Stalin, you deliberately despirtualised Thiruvalluvar to suit your propaganda. Search for cheerleaders elsewhere for your defunct propaganda. Your hatred has blinded you from seeing a locomotive named after our great Rani Velu Nachiyaar. You had a problem with Vande Mataram back then and have a problem with Vande Bharat today. Doesn’t come as a surprise to us!” he added.The language policy dispute has flared up again in Tamil Nadu, where the DMK government stands in opposition to the central government’s trilingual approach outlined in NEP-2020. The state administration has consistently rejected the three-language framework, which has existed as national policy since 1968 and was reinforced in 1986. Despite its long-standing status, Tamil Nadu has refrained from putting this policy into practice.
‘Only a hypocrite would question more funds for Sanskrit over Tamil’: BJP counters CM Stalin | India News
