Vanathi dares TN Parliamentarians to surrender their quota in Kendriya Vidyalayas

The two-language policy had been in place for the last five decades and its continuation would take the state backward by 50 years, BJP Tamil Nadu unit vice-president Vanathi Srinivasan claimed. She attacked the DMK, which has come out against the NEP, accusing it of playing a double game and politics over the issue by claiming that Vedas were sought to be imposed and saying BJP always stood against untouchability.

Reacting to Palaniswami’s statement backing the two- language policy, she told reporters here all cannot afford to study in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools and the strength of students studying in the state-run Tamil medium schools had been decreasing over the years.

Considering the plight of such students, the Chief Minister should reconsider the decision to oppose the three-language formula, she said adding there would be no problem in studying additional languages. The new policy was formulated after consulting with the educationists, academicians and the people, she said.

Targeting DMK, Vanathi said the opposition party president MK Stalin should come forward and prove that the schools “run by his relatives and party cadres” were not teaching Hindi and bring out a white paper on the issue.

She also sought to know whether the MPs from Tamil Nadu, who opposed the three-language policy, will surrender the 10 Kendriya Vidyalaya seats each allotted under the MPs quota for admission to the centrally-run schools. “Are the 39 MPs from Tamil Nadu, who oppose the three-language policy, ready to surrender the 10 seats allotted to them in Kendriya Vidyalaya, which they use for commercial purpose,” she asked. In view of the future of poor students, both the ruling AIADMK and DMK should not oppose the it, she said.