Chennai, April 4 -- Terming the recently unveiled NEP-2020 aligned Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) curriculum framework by the BJP-led union government as not an innocent academic reform but a deeply concerning attempt at linguistic imposition, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President M K Stalin on Saturday said it effetively translates into compulsory Hindi learning for students in southern states.
Slamming the union government, Mr Stalin, in a lengthy post on X, said, under the guise of promoting "Indian languages", the Centre was aggressively advancing a centralising agenda that privileges Hindi while systematically marginalising India's rich and diverse linguistic heritage.
Observing that the so-called three language fo...