DMK Ministers take joy in belittling north Indians: BJP leader Annamalai

BJP state president criticizes DMK Ministers for demeaning Northern Indians, calls out lack of temple crowd management.

BJP state president K. Annamalai on Tuesday (March 18, 2025) alleged that the DMK Ministers take great joy in “belittling our brothers and sisters from Northern India, often forgetting our Tamil values and culture.”

Sharing a video of Tamil Nadu Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises T.M. Anbarasan saying, “Those who studied Hindi are rearing cattle, selling pani puri and involved in construction and carpentry works,” Mr. Annamalai said: “Having intoxicated the younger populace of our State with unrestricted liquor sales and easy access to drugs, the DMK should be ashamed for demeaning the people who have filled in the labour deficit of our State.”

He said the National Education Policy, 2020, was not about Hindi, like the previous educational policies released by the Congress party. It was about promoting all Indian languages, with emphasis on the mother tongue as a medium of instruction, and the opportunity for government school students to learn a third language and foreign languages at the secondary level.

“The people of Tamil Nadu have realised this and DMK should stop wasting their energy in spreading their defunct propaganda and spreading hatred,” Mr. Annamalai said.