Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 16 (ANI): Tamil Nadu BJP State President K Annamalai on Sunday slammed Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin for his stance against the three-language formula in education.
“Private schools where the sons, daughters or grandchildren of Tamil Nadu ministers, including the Chief Minister, study can teach trilingualism. Shouldn’t government schools where our children study teach trilingualism – Tamil, English and a third Indian language?” Annamalai said in a post on X.
The BJP leader accused the DMK government of imposing an “outdated” education policy of the 1960s on the children of Tamil Nadu.
“In private schools run by DMK across Tamil Nadu, most of them have the CBSE trilingual curriculum. Why is it a scam only for government school students? Is the Chief Minister saying that people should learn multiple languages only if they have money? It is now 2025,” Annamalai said.
“The world is developing rapidly. And what is the point of imposing your outdated policy of the 1960s on the children of Tamil Nadu?” he added.
Annamalai’s reaction came after Stalin slammed Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for saying that the DMK government has to come to the terms of the Indian Constitution when reacting to the three-language formula in the New Education Policy.
“He (Dharmendra Pradhan) calls the trilingual policy ‘rule of law’.Can the Education Minister say which section of the Indian Constitution makes the trilingual policy mandatory?” Stalin said in a post on X, tagging a video clip of Pradhan speaking to reporters in Varanasi on February 15.
The chief minister pointed out that education is on the concurrent list, and hence the Union Government does not have a monopoly over it.
“The Union of India is made up of states! Education is on the Consolidation List! The Union Government is not the monopoly of that!” he posted on X.
Stalin said that Tamil Nadu would not tolerate the Centre’s ‘blackmail’ in stating that education-related funds would be withheld until the state accepted the three-language formula.
“We are asking for our rights! If you speak arrogantly as if you are asking for your private property, Delhi will also have to look at the individuality of Tamils,” the chief minister added. (ANI)