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Assault on identity of Tamil Nadu: Karti amid NEP row
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|February 24, 2025
Amid chaos over the proposed National Education Policy (NEP), Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Sunday said that the three-language policy was an "assault" on the linguistic and cultural identity of Tamil Nadu while daring the ruling party in the centre to contest the upcoming 2026 assembly elections solo.
TIRUCHIRAPPALLI: Amid chaos over the proposed National Education Policy (NEP), Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Sunday said that the three-language policy was an "assault" on the linguistic and cultural identity of Tamil Nadu while daring the ruling party in the centre to contest the upcoming 2026 assembly elections solo.
"It is an assault on the linguistic and cultural identity of Tamil Nadu. The BJP should contest the 2026 elections in Tamil Nadu without an alliance because no other political party supports NEP here," Chidambaram, Lok Sabha MP, told ANI.
Asserting that Tamil Nadu can't be held at ransom, he said that the entire state rejects the NEP being pushed by the BJP government in the centre. He said that any talks about three-language policy by the centre was a code of "Hindi imposition."
This story is from the February 24, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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