Is Hindi a yardstick for Indianness? - MK Stalin's response to Kanimozhi airport episode

Chennai

DMK supremo MK Stalin entered the fray in Kanimozhi's anguish over airport authorities doubting her Indian credentials for not knowing Hindi.

Stalin on his twitter handle berated that attitude with the wordplay asking if "the nation is India or 'Hindia'?"

He questioned whether knowing Hindi is a yardstick to being identified as an Indian.

'Those trying to dig a hole to the nation's pluralism will be buried in it' said Stalin.

Kanimozhi earlier expressed her lividness in the Chennai airport episode where she was asked by a CISF officer if she is an Indian, meaning how come being one she doesn't speak Hindi, as a response to the Rameshwaram MP saying she does not know Hindi.