“DMK leaders’ anti-Hindi rants return to haunt party before elections”, Swarajyamag, December 25, 2023:
“A video clip of a speech by senior Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP Dayanidhi Maran regarding Hindi speakers, made in 2019, went viral on social media yesterday (24 December).
According to the English subtitles in the clip, he could be heard saying that people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who learnt only Hindi, were coming to Tamil Nadu and doing menial jobs like cleaning roads and toilets, while those who had learnt English were having jobs with good salaries in IT companies.
It was widely circulated by members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The speech was condemned by Tejashwi Yadav of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which is a member of the Congress-led INDI Alliance, like the DMK. Yadav is also the Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar…..”
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