Chennai/IBNS, March 7 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has hit back at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin's "LKG" remark escalating the faceoff over the National Education Policy (NEP) and the language debate in the south Indian state.

The fresh debate started after Stalin, who runs the ruling DMK, said NEP is like "an LKG student lecturing a PhD holder".

Stalin claimed Tamil Nadu has already achieved many of the goals set by the NEP.

Hitting back at Stalin, Union Home Minister and BJP strongman Amit Shah asked the Chief Minister to hold engineering and medical examinations in Tamil.

Ramping up the party's attack on Stalin on the issue, BJP state president K Annamalai said as quoted by Hindustan Times, "Thiru MK Stalin, our online...