Chennai: Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS for attempting to belittle the Tamil language and culture and said it was his (Rahul’s) duty to protect them.
On the last leg of his three-day campaign tour in the southern districts of Tamilnadu ahead of the 6 April Assembly elections, he said he wanted to share two things to the people.
First, he said the Union government headed by Modi was not giving respect to Tamil language and culture.
It was regrettable that Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami, instead putforthing people’s issues, has been acting on the diktats of Modi.
Modi and RSS were trying to belittle Tamil language and culture. They were trying to bring in One Nation, One language
and One culture, he said and sought to know whether Tamil and Bengali are not Indian languages and Tamil culture is not part of Indian culture.
“I am there…it is my duty to protect the Tamil language and culture. It is my duty is to protect all languages, culture and religions,” Rahul said.
Stating that Tamil Nadu was a guiding state to the entire country, he said late Chief Minister K Kamaraj was the first Indian citizen to introduce the noon meal scheme in schools.
“Despite experts warning that the economy will be hit if the noon meal scheme was implemented, Kamaraj ignored it and went ahead with the scheme. Thanks to the efforts of Kamaraj, this scheme is being implemented not only in Tamilnadu, but in the entire country,” Rahul said.