TN Cong must join DMK protest against Hindi imposition: Chidambaram

September 18, 2019 18:35

Amid controversy over Union Home Minister Amit Shah's call to culturally unify India with Hindi as its national language, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, currently lodged in Tihar jail, on Wednesday urged Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K S Alagiri to join the protest organised by Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam to oppose the imposition of Hindi.

Asking his family to tweet on his behalf, Chidambaram said: 'I urge the TNCC president KS Alagiri to ask all Congress workers to join the state-wide protest announced by the DMK on September 20 to oppose the imposition of Hindi.'

'A dangerous idea that Hindi alone can unite the people of this country has been floated. The Tamil people, as well as all others who speak other languages, will never allow the imposition of Hindi,' Chidambaram's second tweet read.

Earlier, Shah's comment on making Hindi as its national language triggered a row when some opposition leaders trained guns on him demanding to reconsider his appeal as it "poses a danger to the national unity. -- ANI

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