Chennai, April 22 -- Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Monday questioned the Union government whether they "officially endorsed" Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis's remarks on the language formula under the National Education Policy (NEP 2020).

Stalin's remarks came hours after Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said that there is no compulsion to study Hindi.

"Facing a massive backlash for imposing Hindi as the third language, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis now claims that only Marathi is compulsory in the state. This is a clear manifestation of his trepidation over the widespread public condemnation against imposition of Hindi on non-Hindi speaking States," Stalin said in a post on X.

He urged PM Narendra Modi and Union education...