'Is Hindi the yardstick for being an Indian. Is this India or Hindia,' the DMK chief said in a tweet
ౠMK president MK Stalin on Monday took umbrage over the incident in which his sister and party MP Kanimozhi was asked by a CISF official if "she was an Indian" as she could not speak Hindi, asking if knowing that language was the 'yardstick' of being an Indian.
♌"Is Hindi the yardstick for being an Indian. Is this India or Hindia," the DMK chief said in a tweet.
🍌Kanimozhi has alleged a CISF official at Chennai airport had asked her if "she was an Indian" as the DMK leader could not speak Hindi.
💎Stalin, whose party, as a policy, is opposed to the "imposition" of Hindi for decades, further said in the tweet that those trying to "bury pluralism" will get "buried."
⭕On Sunday, Kanimozhi had tweeted "today at the airport a CISF officer asked me if 'I am an Indian' when I asked her to speak to me in Tamil or English as I did not know Hindi," prompting the paramilitary force to order an inquiry.
𒉰"It is not the policy of CISF to insist upon any particular language," it said.