NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu BJP president, K Annamalai, on Thursday slammed Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin for his “orchestrated drama” on the three-language policy row.
“Thiru MK Stalin, you are a con artist masquerading as a protector of our constitution & our federal structure. Usually, con artists scam the rich, but DMK shows no disparity; they scam both the rich and the poor,” Annamalai said in a post on X.
The Tamil Nadu BJP president further said, “The whole country now knows that the chief minister of Tamil Nadu’s family owns private schools that teach three languages & more but opposes the same policy for the state’s Government school students.”
“TN CM thinks that the orchestrated drama by his partymen in pockets here and there reflects the voice of entire TN,” Annamalai added while replying to a post by MK Stalin in which he criticised UP CM Yogi Adityanath’s ‘hate’ remark.
In an interview with the news agency ANI, UP CM Yogi said that Stalin was trying to create divisions based on region and language because he felt his vote bank was at risk.
Adityanath questioned why Hindi should be “hated”. On being asked about the opposition to the Hindi language in Tamil Nadu, Yogi said, “The country should not be divided on the basis of language or region. We are grateful to Prime Minister Modi ji for organizing the third generation of the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi. Tamil is one of the oldest languages in India, and its history is as ancient as Sanskrit. Every Indian has respect and reverence for Tamil because many elements of Indian heritage are still alive in the language. So, why should we hate Hindi?”
Replying to Adityanath’s statement, Stalin said that the UP CM’s comment is “political black comedy.” “Tamil Nadu’s fair and firm voice on two-language policy and fair delimitation is echoing nationwide—and the BJP is clearly rattled. Just watch their leaders’ interviews,” Stalin said in a post on X.
He added, “And now Hon’ble Yogi Adityanath wants to lecture us on hate? Spare us. This isn’t irony—it’s political black comedy at its darkest.”
