Adding fuel to the ongoing Hindi imposition row, senior DMK leader and the party’s Rajya Sabha member TKS Elangovan has said the language would reduce Tamils to the status of ”shudras”.
He claimed that the Hindi-speaking States in the country were not the developed ones while those with vernacular languages as mother tongue were doing well.
Attempts are being made to ”impose Manu dharma through the imposition of Hindi,” Elangovan said in his remarks, that have went viral, while speaking at a conference on the language imposition issue, organised by the Dravidar Kazhagam, recently.
The DMK leader, who also opposed Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s pitch for Hindi, was not immmediately available for comments.
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