TRICHY: Recalling the anti-Hindi agitation of former chief minister M Karunanidhi at Kallakudi in Trichy, DMK youth wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin launched a tirade against the BJP-led government for “trying to impose Hindi in Tamil Nadu,” here on Wednesday.
“Hindi cannot be imposed in Tamil Nadu. The rulers are hellbent on doing it, but Tamil people will never allow it. We (DMK) are not against Hindi. But we will oppose the imposition of Hindi forever,” he told reporters at Kallakudi railway station. Udhayanidhi visited Kallakudi Palanganatham railway station in the morning as part of his campaign in Trichy.
He recalled the Kallakudi demonstration spearheaded by his grandfather and the late DMK president Karunanidhi to protest against the renaming of Kallakudi as Dalmiapuram after Ramakrishna Dalmia, a Bihar businessman who had set up a cement factory at Kallakudi in 1953. The third generation politician from Karunanidhi’s family termed his visit to the station today as a proud moment.
During his campaign in Kattuputhur, Udhayanidhi called the state unsafe of everyone in the wake of the arrest of an AIADMK functionary by CBI in the Pollachi sexual assault case. “No one including students and farmers are safe in the state,” he alleged. Udhayanidhi also raked up the issue of the death of former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Exuding confidence of coming to power in the 2021 assembly election, he said that the mystery surrounding Jayalalithaa’s death will be brought to light. Udhayanidhi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was biased in not sanctioning funds to Tamil Nadu as the “voters rejected him”.