The Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday passed a motion against the imposition of Hindi and requested that the Centre refrain from putting the report’s recommendations into practice. The motion, led by Chief Minister MK Stalin, argued that the suggestion made to the President on September 9 was against state languages, including Tamil, as well as the interests of the people who speak those languages.
The resolution stated that “the House expresses concern that the recommendation of the Parliamentary Committee, now presented, are against the two-language policy resolution moved and passed by Perarignar Anna in this august House, contrary to the promise made by the then-Prime Minister Thiru Nehru to the non-Hindi speaking states and are against the use of English as Official language guaranteed by the resolutions passed in 1968 and 1976 on Official language.” The House unanimously approved the resolution. O Panneerselvam, the leader of the AIADMK, declared that his party supported the State’s dual language policy of Tamil and English.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AllMS), and Kendriya Vidyalayas all urged that Hindi be used as the primary language of instruction in place of English.
He claimed that they intended to drive away students from non-Hindi states from the institutions by mandating Hindi as the only language of instruction from KVS to IITs. They are putting an end to English knowledge by rejecting it. He questioned, “Are you prepared to elevate all languages listed in our constitution’s 8th schedule to the status of official languages on a par with Hindi?” “They have specifically said that all exams would now be administered in Hindi and that only residents of states that speak Hindi will be eligible to apply for union government positions. States that don’t speak Hindi will get alienated from the national conversation as a result. To make Hindi the new language in place of English, “Added he.
The chief minister voiced alarm about the proposal to eliminate the required English component from Union Recruitment examinations, issue a warning to officials who do not speak Hindi and assess candidates taking Union service exams on their mastery of the language. He continued to oppose the action by stating that “it is clearly an attempt to boost the dominance of Hindi.”
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