NE NEWS SERVICE
CHENNAI, APRIL 10
The ruling DMK on Sunday “warned” the Centre against imposing Hindi saying the Tamil people still remembered the anti-Hindi agitation by late party patriarch M Karunanidhi, implying that they would not allow it to happen.
முதலில் ஆங்கில மொழியை அழி.
அடுத்து மாநில மொழிகளை ஒழி.
இதுதானே உங்களின் சூழ்ச்சி?அனைத்து மொழிகளையும்
அரவணைப்பது கூட்டாட்சி.
ஒற்றை மொழி இந்தியை
அனைவருக்கும் திணிப்பது காட்டாட்சி.வரலாற்றுப் பிழை செய்யத் துடிக்கிறீர்கள்.
நினைவிருக்கட்டும்,
வரலாறு உங்களை புரட்டிப் போடும்! pic.twitter.com/ofIYZNXR2Q— Dayanidhi Maran தயாநிதி மாறன் (@Dayanidhi_Maran) April 8, 2022
The ruling party’s mouthpiece “Murasoli” in its edition today carried a well-known slogan of Karunanidhi (1924-2018) against foisting Hindi on people and captioned the write-up as “Warning to the Union government.”
The crux of the Tamil slogan, which involves figurative use of language, is a clarion call to the people to staunchly oppose imposition of Hindi and an assertion that there is no “coward” in the state hinting that Hindi cannot be imposed on them.
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According to the party organ, Karunanidhi as a 14-year old student marched on the streets of his native Tiruvarur in 1938 along with other students raising this slogan to oppose Hindi imposition. The DMK Tamil daily said people still remembered Karunanidhi’s rally and added, “Do not forget it”, which implied that people would hence not permit imposition of Hindi to happen in Tamil Nadu.
Reacting to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on April 7 that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages, DMK president and Chief Minister M K Stalin had said that it would wreck the natio’”s integrity.
Presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee in Delhi, Shah had said Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided that the medium of running the government is in the official language and this would definitely increase the importance of Hindi.
