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COIMBATORE, MAY 13
Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K Ponmudy on Thursday said that Hindi speakers sell pani puri here. Addressing a convocation ceremony at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Ponmudy said that the state government was determined to implement a two-language system. Elaborating on the same, the Education Minister of the state said that the two languages were English- an international language and Tamil- a local language.
The minister said pani puri sellers in Tamil Nadu speak Hindi. That's true and I don't understand what's wrong with that: @saravofcl
Insult to Hindi is an insult to our mother tongue: @Mohsinrazabjpup@prathibhatweets pic.twitter.com/WOHngdiias
— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) May 13, 2022
‘What is the need for another language?’, Ponmudy further asked, and presented another ideology. The Tamil Nadu Education Minister said, “A person gets made two doors, one big door, and another one small. When asked, he says that the big door is for the cat, and the small one is for the rat… But the question is – When the door is already made for the cat, through which even the mouse can go, why another…”
கோவை பாரதியார் பல்கலைக்கழக பட்டமளிப்பு விழாவில்
கலந்து கொண்டு வாழ்த்துரை வழங்கினேன். pic.twitter.com/JY0NwOXNtg— Dr.K.Ponmudy (@KPonmudiMLA) May 13, 2022
The series of analogies were made by the Minister, a day after the Chief Minister, MK Stalin wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice NV Ramana. In the letter, CM Stalin sought that Tamil be made the official language of the Madras High Court. He cited the cases of the high courts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh – where Hindi has been authorised as the official language in addition to English.
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“One, therefore, wonders, what is the impediment to making the official language of other states the official language of the High Court, in addition to English,” the Tamil Nadu CM wrote. Not just in Tamil Nadu, a wave of debates and discussions over language has emerged in the past few days. The recent one was involving Kannada actor Kiccha Sudeep.