CHENNAI, Feb. 22 -- The DMK's proclivity for seceding from India has come out in the open with the declaration by Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin that the Dravidian party would destroy and eradicate Hindi once and for ever from the State. Weeks after Stalin and his son Udhayanidhi Stalin, the deputy chief minister made it known that the DMK would ensure the eradication of Sanatana Dharma, from the Dravidian heartland, the former quoted a Tamil poet in his social media as a reply to to union minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan rejecting Tamil Nadu's demand for central funds for implementing the state's education programs.

The Centre's decision to hold back the fund was the fall out of Tamil Nadu's adamant attitude against the N...