Tamil Nadu Ruling Party's "Warning" To Centre After Amit Shah's Hindi Remark
NDTV
The DMK's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' has carried a well-known slogan of late party patriarch Karunanidhi against foisting Hindi on people and captioned the write-up as "Warning to the Union government."
The ruling DMK on Sunday "warned" the Centre against imposing Hindi, saying the Tamil people still remembered the anti-Hindi agitation by late party patriarch M Karunanidhi, implying that they would not allow it to happen.
The DMK's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' in its edition on Sunday carried a well-known slogan of Karunanidhi (1924-2018) against foisting Hindi on people and captioned the write-up as "Warning to the Union government."
The crux of the Tamil slogan, which involves figurative use of language, is a clarion call to the people to staunchly oppose imposition of Hindi and an assertion that there is no "coward" in the state, hinting that Hindi cannot be imposed on them.
According to the party organ, Karunanidhi as a 14-year old student marched on the streets of his native Tiruvarur in 1938 along with other students, raising this slogan to oppose Hindi imposition.
