Political row erupts in Tamil Nadu after anthem fiasco

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A Hindi month celebration at Doordarshan Chennai sparked a political controversy on Friday with chief minister MK Stalin criticising the event and later governor RN Ravi, after performers missed a sentence with references to Dravida while singing the Tamil Nadu state anthem at the function.N)..

I strongly condemn the celebration of Hindi month valedictory function along with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Chennai Doordarshan..

It has been announced that the closing ceremony of the Hindi Month celebrations and Golden Jubilee celebrations of Chennai Television will be held this evening at Doordarshan Tamil in Chennai, and Tamil Nadu governor RN Ravi will be the special guest..

The DMK-led Tamil Nadu government has, in the past, accused the governor, as well as the ruling BJP at the Centre, of trying to push Hindi in its policies at the cost of regional tongues, but the Union government has dismissed these concerns and said it wanted to help all Indian languages..

As a proud Indian I myself have taken numerous substantive initiatives to spread Tamil, the oldest and richest living language, in other states of the country, the latest being to set up, with cooperation of the Assam govt, a Tamil diploma course in Gauhati University for spread of Tamil in the North East, Ravi was quoted in a post by the Raj Bhawan on X. ..

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