DMK MPS will raise the alleged discrimination of Tamil Nadu for 11 years by the Modi government besides the inordinate delay in revival of statehood for Jammu and Kashmir as well the special intensive revision of voters list in poll-bound Bihar in the upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament.
This was resolved at a meeting of MPs of the DMK, chaired by party president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin at the party headquarters, Anna Arivalayam, on the arterial Anna Salai on Friday.
“The party MPs will highlight the continued discrimination of the state and cultural infiltration against the Tamils and raise the legitimate financial, linguistic and educational rights as well as the threat to India’s cooperative federalism in both the Houses of Parliament. It will be a firm and united voice, reflecting the sentiments of the people, to secure those rights,” a resolution adopted by the meeting read.
It was also decided to highlight the BJP-led Union Government dodging the revival of Statehood to Jammu and Kashmir, trifurcated in 2019 by abrogating its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution.
Condemning the SIR in Bihar, as a blatant misuse of the Election Commission, an autonomous statutory body, the resolution said disenfranchising crores of voters is nothing but an exercise of pouring hot water in the roots of democracy. It also decried the imposition of Hindi at the expense of Tamil and other languages of respective states.
Continuing its democratic tradition of remaining in the forefront of lending its voice on issues of national concern including the hike in Railway fare, the party would raise them in Parliament so that it reverberates across the country, it added.
The party lashed out at the Modi government for sanctioning the funds under Samagra Siksha Abihyan (SSA) programme for the Maharashtra, ruled under a BJP-led coalition, though it has backtracked on making Hindi mandatory on implementing the three-language formula, but denying the same to Tamil Nadu, displaying its step motherly attitude.
Among the demands, the resolution had listed are reverting Education from the Concurrent List to the State List of the Constitution.
Declaring the Sangam era literary work Thirukkural, composed by sage-poet Thiruvalluvar, as the National Book, opposition to Hindi-Sanskrit imposition and the disregard for Tamil and other state’s languages, putting and to the arrest of Indian fishermen by the Lankan navy, 50 percent share in the devolution of funds by the Finance Commission and naming Union Government schemes in English instead of Hindi.