DMK's Kanimozhi on Tamil-Hindi Ro

Bengaluru:

Senior DMK leader Kanimozhi today clarified his party's position on the controversial issue of three language policy, saying that he is a “impose” of Hindi by the Center, not the language of per language.

Asked whether Tamil and Hindi cannot be co-existence in a special interview, Ms. Kanimoji told NewBharat TV, “Surely languages ​​can co-exist”.

Today, Tamil Nadu, he said, there are different people who speak different languages ​​from different parts of the country.

“Co -existence is not a problem, imposing is a problem,” he said. “We do not want to protect Tamil at the cost of any other language. And protecting Tamil is not about protecting an ideology,” he said.
Then, quoting Vice President Jagdeep Dhikar, he said that the way to destroy a race is to destroy your language.

“Today I can show you a lot of states who have lost their art, their culture, their language to their films … Hindi changed its literature, films, its music. Why would I like it to happen in another language?” He said.

In this context, it also indicated that the North-South division has been deepened by non-permission of a condition when the education policy is prepared.

“When the rules were prepared, it was clear that the states in the north would learn a southern language and the southern state would learn a North Indian language.”

He said, “Today, Kerala, Karnataka learned Hindi.

In addition, the principle of three languages ​​is not necessarily not better, Ms. Kanimoji said.

“It's a myth that learning to learn three languages ​​is somewhat great and only rich children are able to do so … I am sure that there is a communication with the English world and other states. You have to learn your mother tongue to understand who you are,” he said.

If there is any need, anyone can learn any language including Mandarin and Japanese, he said.

Tamil Nadu historically had a 'two-language' policy, which taught Tamil and English to children in government schools. There have been large-scale anti-Hindi movements in the 1930s and 1960s.

Now, as the BJP pushed for a three -language education policy, planning a statewide campaign from 1 March, DMK said that the “language war” was ready.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has announced that the state will not get a fund of about Rs 2,400 crore for the ongoing overall coin mission, unless it adopts the National Education Policy in its entirety. Chief Minister MK Stalin replied that it was “blackmail”.

Among the row, Union Minister Amit Shah, who was in Tamil Nadu today, said that he apologized for “not able to speak the world's oldest language Tamil”.