New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Tamil Nadu Minister MRK Panneerselvam has sparked a row as he made an insensitive remark against migrant workers, again igniting the Centre versus language policy debate. Addressing an event in Chengalpattu near Chennai, the state agriculture minister said that people from North India come to the South to "clean tables and sell pani puri" because of their only-Hindi education.

MRK Panneerselvam was quoted as saying: ".those from the north are coming to Tamil Nadu to clean tables. they are coming here to work as construction labourers pani puri sellers as they have only learnt Hindi. But our children have gone abroad. as we follow a two-language policy and learned English well. They are going abroad and getting opport...