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Amit Shah Calls for Engineering and Medical Education in Tamil Amid Language Dispute

Union Home Minister Amit Shah encouraged the DMK president to provide engineering and medical education in Tamil in the state as a response to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, who has been criticizing the Center for “Hindi imposition” and the delimitation process.

Speaking at the 56th CISF Raising Day at Thakkolam, Ranipet, Shah claimed that the Narendra Modi administration has made adjustments and made sure that candidates could take the test in their native tongues.

“Now the PM Narendra Modi government has ensured that the exam can be written in Tamil too,” Shah said. Shah praised the state’s culture and claimed that it was essential to bolstering India’s cultural current. “Be it administrative reforms, attaining spiritual heights, education or the unity and integrity of the nation – Tamil Nadu has reinforced Indian culture in every sphere,” Shah said.

Next year, Tamil Nadu will hold assembly elections, and Stalin has been stepping up his attacks on the BJP in recent weeks. Stalin made fun of the BJP ahead of Shah’s arrival, claiming that the state now laughs at the National Education Policy’s three-language formula. “History is clear. Those who tried to impose Hindi on Tamil Nadu have either been defeated or later changed their stance and aligned with DMK. Tamil Nadu will not tolerate Hindi colonialism replacing British colonialism,” Stalin said.

By refusing its fair share for its opposition to the NEP, the 72-year-old leader accused the saffron party on Thursday of chauvinism and treating the people of the state like second-class citizens.

Regarding the NEP’s three-language policy, Stalin and Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan have been engaged in a verbal duel. Pradhan recently said that Tamil Nadu’s opposition had “political reasons” for opposing the NEP’s decision to impose Hindi on states. “We have never said in NEP 2020 that only Hindi will be there; we have only said that education will be based on mother tongue, in Tamil Nadu, it will be Tamil,” Pradhan told media. 

The Centre had withheld funds under the Samagra Shiksha scheme, amounting to Rs 2,152 crore and Pradhan had earlier said the funds would be set aside unless Tamil Nadu implemented the NEP and adopted the three-language formula. In response, Stalin defined it as an attack on the Tamil language – an issue with much emotional potency in the state.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister requested the amount’s release in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. Tamil Nadu has long seen the NEP as an attempt to “impose” Hindi on the state, despite the NDA-led Center’s insistence that it is meant to guarantee jobs for young people in all regions. Anti-Hindi agitations have existed in the southern state, where Dravidian philosophy is prevalent, for about a century.

Due to purported flaws in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) last year, the southern state has vehemently rejected the test. After repeatedly protesting the test, the DMK-led administration approved a resolution calling on the federal government to abandon it nationwide and accept the state’s NEET exemption bill.

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