Overview

• The Maharashtra government rescinded its orders to implement the NEP 2020 three-language formula for a second time following mass protests led by Uddhav and Raj Thackeray.
• Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin reaffirmed the state’s two-language system and demanded immediate release of ₹2,152 crore in withheld Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan funds.
• Stalin hailed the Thackeray cousins’ unusual political unity as proof of a growing alliance defending regional languages and resisting federal coercion.
• He accused the Union government of using education funding as leverage to impose Hindi instruction and dismissed claims that Hindi proficiency boosts job opportunities as a myth.
• The episode highlights enduring federal–state tensions over language policy and echoes Tamil Nadu’s 1967 anti-Hindi agitations in defense of linguistic diversity.