There has been a lot of agitation among people in the south regarding their own consideration of the Tamil language. Amid widespread charges of an anti-Tamil attitude of the BJP-led Central government, Minister for Cooperation Sellur K Raju stated that BJP is the only national party that is promoting Tamil language. Citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s narrative of Thirukkural and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recital of Purananooru at the Parliament, Raju stated on Saturday that the Congress had never done anything of that sort before. “Modi has great respect for Tamil language. Even during the Modi-Xi Jinping summit, the prime minister took the Chinese President to Mahabalipuram.”

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Taking a dig at DMK, Raju alleged that the late DMK President M Karunanidhi organised the 2010 World Classical Tamil Conference not for promoting Tamil but for praising his family members. He also pointed out that Palaniswami had interrupted when a Tamil medium school in Ahmedabad was closed and also took steps when the posts of Tamil teachers remained vacant in Karnataka schools.

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Earlier, following a letter sent to Modi by Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami to Modi, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) included a Master’s degree in Tamil as the minimum qualification to get admission to the two-year diploma course in Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Institute of Archaeology. Political and educational issues are everyday happening in the state but along with that development is also at a rise in the state. 

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