Chennai, Aug. 4 -- Strongly condemning the Delhi Police under the Union Home Ministry describing Bengali as a "Bangladeshi language", Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin today said it exposed the dark mindset of a regime that undermines diversity, weaponises identity and a direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem was written.

Stating that such statements were not inadvertent errors or slips, he said they exposed the dark mindset of a regime that consistently undermines diversity and weaponises identity.

It was direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem was written, Mr Stalin said, adding his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee would stand as a shield for the language and...