TN's Concrete Response on Language Issue Soon, Says CM

ASSERTING that the Tamil race and Tamil language can be protected only by strengthening the state's autonomy and establishing the state's rights, Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin on Tuesday told the Assembly that a precise response is being contemplated on the issue and he would make an announcement soon.

- T MURUGANANDHAM

Replying to a discussion on a calling attention motion on the language policy in the Assembly, the chief minister alleged that by imposing Hindi, the present union government is trying to dominate the states, their languages, and ethnic groups. "There is a need to put a decisive end to this," the CM said.

Stalin alleged that the union government was doing injustice to the states in allocation of funds and imposition of language because they are being considered as vassal states of the union government. "We are therefore under compulsion to take concrete steps to protect the federal nature of India and to win states' autonomy," he said.