The attempt to impose the three-language policy on the State would also meet the same fate of the Governor’s earlier bids and only suffer a nose cut.
Chennai: Governor R N Ravi’s allegation that the southern part of the State felt like a neglected backyard despite the region having a huge potential for industrialization came in for attack from the State Law Minister S Regupathy, who challenged the Governor to explain on what aspect the State was backward.
Ravi’s message on X after interacting with leaders from sectors like education, business, health, hospitality, youth startups, women entrepreneurs and MSMEs, besides students, said: ‘people here feel neglected of opportunities.’
Responding to that, Regupathy said statistics provided by the Union Government had certified the State’s phenomenal growth in education, medical facilities and economy when compared to other States and accused the Governor of turning a blind eye to such reports.
Alleging that Ravi had been spewing venom against the State, taking up the task as his responsibility, unable to tolerate the growth in economy and education that the State had achieved, the Minister said he had forgotten his Constitutional duties.
The Union Government had retained Ravi in the State only with the sole purpose of playing politics by derogating Tamil Nadu through unsubstantiated charges, he said.
Terming it as a conspiracy by dominant forces to impose the three-language policy on the State that had witnessed tremendous success through the two-language policy, Regupathy said it was a bid to impose Hindi and the National Education Policy.
On the Governor’s statement, ‘Our Youth must have a choice to study language,’ the Minister said ‘we can distinguish between choice of language and imposition of a language’ and could clearly see through the drama enacted here in this regard.
Some who had been spewing hatred continuously against Tamil language, Tamil Nadu and Tamil anthem need not take classes to the Tamil people on love for their language, he said, pointing out that the Governor had failed in his bid to make Sanathana Dharma and Sanskrit give roots in the State.
The attempt to impose the three-language policy on the State would also meet the same fate of the Governor’s earlier bids and only suffer a nose cut, he said.
Ravi’s message on X has said ‘The youth of this region feel hugely deprived of opportunities compared to those from neighboring States due to the rigid two language policy of the State Government. They feel that unfortunately in the name of opposition to Hindi they are not allowed to study even any other South Indian languages.’
