After the draft National Education Policy was uploaded to invite comments, several parties in Tamil Nadu had expressed fears that Hindi would be imposed on the state. Although the Centre is now scrambling to contain the backlash, it appears to have, deliberately or otherwise, sowed the seeds of suspicion when it uploaded the draft education policy on Friday. But it created a strong feeling in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Several people had been killed in Tamil Nadu in language-related agitations earlier. “The central government must clarify that the three-language formula will not be implemented in Tamil Nadu,” AIADMK Rajya Sabha MP A. Navaneethakrishnan said.

Source: The Telegraph June 03, 2019 22:33 UTC