Kamal Haasan has warned the center of protests bigger than those in 2017 for Jallikattu
Chennai:
Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today joined a growing chorus of voices against Amit Shah after the Home Minister’s comments on Saturday about Hindi becoming a unifying language sparked controversy. The Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief asked the center not to renege on promises made to states when India was made a republic and warned the Narendra Modi government of a language war that “India or Tamil Nadu doesn’t need or deserve”.
Kamal Haasan, who wassimilarly candid in Julyafter a draft of the National Education Policy required school children in southern states to learn Hindi, also declared that Tamil Nadu would fight harder than it did in the 2017 Jallikattu
“Unity in diversity is a promise we made when India became a republic. Now no Shah, Sultan or Samrat should renege on that promises. Jallikatu was just a protest … the battle for our language India or Tamil Nadu doesn’t need or deserve such a battle, “Kamal Haasan said, adding,” We respect all languages but our mother language will always be Tamil. “
” Most of the nation happily sings the national anthem happily in Be ngali. The reason is the poet who wrote it gave respect to all languages and cultures, and hence it became our anthem. So don’t make an inclusive India into an exclusive one, “the MNM leader said, warning the center that” all will suffer due to this short-sighted folly “.
Amit Shah’s statements on Hindibecoming a unifying language for all Indians has been seen by many as an attempt by the center to impose Hindi on non-Hindi speaking states.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan issued a scathing response to Mr Shah’s statement, describing it as part of the “Sangh Parivar’s signs to launch a new battlefieldin the name of language “and saying non-Hindi speaking people would be made second-class citizens.
MK Stalin, DMK chief and Leader of the Opposition in Tamil Nadu, was equally assertive that Hindi could not be imposed on southern states. “This is India, not Hindia,” he said on Saturday, following up on comments made in June when he warned the center of a “language war”.
In Tamil Nadu, the ruling AIADMK and the PMK, both allies of Mr Shah’s BJP, have opposed the Home Minister’s idea.
Former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy tweeted in Kannada after Mr Shah’s comments and said no language could be imposed over another.
Tamil Nadu has long opposed the imposition of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states; the issue is an emotive one in the southern state, which saw anti-Hindi protests from 1937 to 1940 and in (***********************************.
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