The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has determined to mobilise political events throughout India to oppose the Union authorities’s proposed delimitation train.
The choice was taken throughout a gathering of DMK Parliamentarians on the celebration headquarters, ‘Anna Arivalayam,’ beneath the management of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin.
In accordance with sources inside the celebration, CM Stalin assigned key ministers to go to completely different states and interact with regional political events, urging them to affix a joint motion committee that can scrutinise the implications of the delimitation proposal.
State IT Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan has been tasked with reaching out to Kerala, whereas Ministers EV Velu, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, and TRB Rajaa will journey to Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, and Odisha, respectively.
Moreover, DMK MPs have been directed to collaborate with different opposition MPs in Delhi to mount a robust problem towards the delimitation train in Parliament.
The celebration has persistently voiced considerations in regards to the concern, alongside its opposition to the Union authorities’s three-language coverage.
The DMK plans to lift a number of points within the upcoming parliamentary session. Aside from delimitation and the three-language coverage, the celebration will deal with the delay within the allocation of Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act (MGNREGA) funds, the denial of flood reduction help, and the non-disbursement of funds beneath the Samagra Shiksha scheme as a consequence of Tamil Nadu’s rejection of the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP).
The choice to aggressively push these points comes amid criticism from opposition events, together with the newly fashioned Tamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), led by actor Vijay, relating to the DMK MPs’ efficiency in Parliament.
By taking a proactive stance, the DMK goals to counter these criticisms successfully. Chief Minister Stalin has additionally criticised what he describes because the Union authorities’s discriminatory allocation of funds for language growth.
He highlighted that whereas Tamil is spoken by roughly eight crore folks, solely Rs 74 crore has been allotted for its growth.
In distinction, Sanskrit, which has a considerably smaller variety of audio system, has obtained Rs 1,488 crore.
CM Stalin has been vocal in regards to the BJP-led authorities’s alleged makes an attempt to impose Hindi on Tamil Nadu by way of the NEP’s three-language coverage. His opposition extends past India, as he lately supported a protest by the Tamil diaspora in america towards the coverage.
Tamil Diaspora Protests within the US A gaggle of Tamil protesters in Dallas, US, lately demonstrated towards the Union authorities’s language coverage, accusing it of undermining Tamil Nadu’s long-standing two-language system.
CM Stalin expressed solidarity with the demonstrators by sharing a information report and a video of the protest, utilizing the hashtag #VazhgaTamil.
The DMK’s agency stand towards each the three-language coverage and the proposed delimitation train alerts its continued resistance to what it perceives as makes an attempt to decrease Tamil Nadu’s linguistic and political affect.
