India, June 24 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin on Tuesday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s real intention is to impose Sanskrit and Hindi is only a facade, while highlighting a Hindustan Times report which revealed the Union government had spent Rs.2532.59 crore on the promotion of Sanskrit between 2014-15 and 2024-25, 17 times the combined spending of Rs.147.56 crore on the other five classical Indian languages-- Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Odia.

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader said, "Sanskrit gets the crores; Tamil and other South Indian languages get nothing but crocodile tears," Stalin posted on X, sharing the HT report.

Earlier in March, in a letter to DMK party cadre, Stalin had said, "W...