Speaking in Lok Sabha, Sitharaman said, "New Education Policy actually says learn in your mother tongue till class 5th, if possible till 8th even better till intermediate that's what NEP says but they (DMK) want to imagine it is imposing Hindi. Wrongly they have created political mess in Tam
Amid the National Education Policy and delimitation row, Congress leader V Hanumantha Rao on Tuesday said that Hindi should not be imposed on them as it will be "injustice" to the South.
Amid growing protests against the National Education Policy (NEP), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Malvinder Singh Kang on Tuesday asserted that there is no objection to studying Hindi or English, but the BJP-led central government needs to protect and promote regional languages.
Following the row over implementing the three-language policy in Tamil Nadu, Congress leader P Chidambaram said that unless the two-language policy is successful, discussing the three-language policy is redundant.
Following the row over allegations of trying to impose the Hindi language in Tamil Nadu, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar clarified that in the three-language formula, the emphasis was on the mother tongue, and this was a political war.
Asserting that Silvassa is emerging as a modern city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the cosmopolitan nature of this city highlights the rapid development of new opportunities in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
He also warned and said Tamil Nadu accepts Hindi as the third language, the BJP government would eventually claim a shortage of Hindi teachers in the state, which would result in a surge of non-native speakers being hired in Tamil Nadu's government schools.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and alleged that despite several appeals in the last two years the Chief Minister is yet to take steps towards introducing curriculum of medical and engineering courses in Tamil language in the state.
The BJP's signature campaign receives over two lakh signatures in just 36 hours through their website puthiyakalvi.in. Annamalai also criticized CM Stalin on social media, accusing him of failing to carry out a signature campaign against NEET and calling his opposition to Hindi imposition