Overview
- At a Chennai event on Tuesday, Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin said Tamil Nadu would resist any Hindi imposition and was prepared for a language war.
- The BJP condemned his earlier description of Sanskrit as a “dead language” and demanded an unconditional public apology.
- Congress leaders echoed concerns over funding patterns but rejected labeling any language as dead, urging a more respectful tone.
- An official Lok Sabha reply recorded about Rs 1,487.84 crore for the Central Sanskrit University during 2014–22 versus Rs 74.1 crore for the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, figures cited in the debate.
- No apology or policy change has been announced, as the dispute widens into arguments over the three-language policy, federalism and cultural priorities in the state.