Chennai, March 4 (NationPress) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has raised a pertinent question regarding the absence of an Uttar Bharat Tamil Prachar Sabha in North India, despite the existence of the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha for over a century aimed at promoting Hindi in the southern states.

In a post on X, CM Stalin stated: “A century has gone by since the Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha was established to encourage South Indians to learn Hindi. How many Uttar Bharat Tamil Prachar Sabhas have been created in North India during this time? The reality is, we have never insisted that North Indians must learn Tamil or any South Indian language to 'preserve' them. All we ask is to #StopHindiImposition on us. If states ruled by the BJP wish to teach three languages or even thirty, they should feel free to do so! Just leave Tamil Nadu out of it!”

CM Stalin reaffirmed his opposition to the perceived imposition of Hindi in Tamil Nadu and other southern regions, emphasizing that Tamil Nadu has never pressured northern states to adopt Tamil.

He further questioned the three-language policy, arguing that if students in North India are only required to master two languages, why should students in South India be compelled to learn an additional one?

In another post on X, he criticized those pushing for a third language in Tamil Nadu: “Some advocates of skewed policies, lamenting in concern, ask, ‘Why are you denying Tamil Nadu students the chance to learn a third language?’ Well, why don’t they first clarify which third language is being taught up north? If they had only taught two languages properly there, what’s the necessity for us to learn a third?”

Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has also vehemently opposed the New Education Policy (NEP) and any form of Hindi imposition.

CM Stalin recently cautioned that implementing the NEP would regress Tamil Nadu by 2,000 years, asserting that the state would reject the policy even if the Union government offered ₹10,000 crore.

He also criticized Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, accusing him of enforcing Hindi through the NEP.

Udhayanidhi pledged to defend Tamil identity at all costs.

CM Stalin further pointed out what he termed the discriminatory allocation of funds for language development. “Tamil is spoken by 8 crore people, yet the Union government has allocated only ₹74 crore for its development. In contrast, ₹1,488 crore has been allocated for Sanskrit, which is spoken by merely a few thousand people,” he stated.

He added, “The Tamil Nadu government has consistently opposed the NEP and the three-language policy, favoring its current two-language system -- Tamil and English. Even the principal opposition party, AIADMK, has supported this position.”

However, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan accused CM Stalin of misrepresenting the NEP to maintain a political agenda.

He urged the Chief Minister to prioritize students’ interests over political differences.

Pradhan’s response came after a letter from CM Stalin to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, objecting to the connection between Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) funds and the PM SHRI Schools scheme.

The CM argued that these are distinct Centrally sponsored programs and that linking them is unjust. In his correspondence, CM Stalin requested PM Modi to release ₹2,152 crore in SSA funds for Tamil Nadu without associating them with the NEP.

He accused the Union government of using financial allocations as leverage to coerce states into compliance, labeling it a breach of cooperative federalism.