Modi govt naming schemes only in Hindi: Kanimozhi

“How will a villager in my district will understand what it is?”

kanimozhi-bjp-leader DMK MP Kanimozhi | PTI

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam MP Kanimozhi on Thursday raked up the issue of alleged Hindi imposition in non-Hindi speaking states, and accused the Union government of naming all its schemes and programmes only in Hindi.

“I would like to ask you how a villager in my district will understand what it is. I've seen signboards in Thoothukudi (her constituency) saying PM Sadak Yojana,with no translation. I don't understand it,” she said while raising the issue in the Lok Sabha.

“You (ruling party) are here to serve the people. Names, symbols and signs should be in regional languages. A common man should not struggle to understand them”, she said.

A few days ago, the MP had accused the AIADMK government in the state of blindly following the central government's "agenda of the imposition of Hindi language".

Tweeting the image of the MTC buses with the hashtag ‘stop Hindi imposition’, she had said: “No space for Tamil in buses brought from using tax payers’ money. The state government is following the Central government’s agenda of the imposition of Hindi language upon Tamilian people. The state government is blindly following this to show Centre that they’re on the same page on this.”

On Thursday, Kanimozhi also warned the government against any move to privatise Indian Railways. 

“I would like to tell the government that any attempt to corporatise or privatise Indian Railways or the Salem Steel Plant will be resisted by the people of Tamil Nadu, the DMK and my leader M.K. Stalin,” she said.

Taking potshots at Prime Ministe Narendra Modi's bullet train project, Kanimozhi said it was not important whether we had bullet trains, but the fact that Indian Railways still employed manual scavengers was something we had to be ashamed of.

“They (Railways) said they don't employ manual scavengers directly. But it's done through contractual labour. It's shameful for the nation to continue it,” Kanimozhi said.

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