Chennai, March 7 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin, who has been posing questions to the BJP-led Union government on the three language policy under the National Education Policy (NEP), on Thursday said that demanding linguistic equality is not chauvinism while recalling Franklin Leonard's quote that "When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

Stalin said he was reminded of the quote when some "entitled bigots" branded the DMK-led Tamil Nadu as "chauvinists and anti-nationals" for demanding Tamil language's rightful place in Tamil Nadu.

"Demanding linguistic quality is not chauvinism," Stalin said on X. "Do you want to know what Chauvinism looks like? Chauvinism is naming the three criminal laws that gov...