‘हिंदी थोपी गई तो साउथ नहीं मानेगा’, शशि थरूर के बयान पर अन्नामलाई का पलटवार – shashi tharoor annamalai debate san francisco hindi issue ntc dhrj
When three stalwarts of Indian politics came together on one stage in San Francisco, America, a heated debate was inevitable. The occasion was the Stanford India Conference, where a heated argument was witnessed between Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, BJP MP Tejashwi Surya and BJP leader K Annamalai. During this, Shashi Tharoor said that if there is an attempt to make Hindi the national language, then the people of South India, especially Tamil Nadu, will strongly oppose it. This statement of Tharoor and the political tussle between North and South India became the center of this entire discussion.
According to news agency ANI, Shashi Tharoor Raised a serious concern while raising the issue of increasing population of the states of North India. He said that the population in North India has increased very rapidly, due to which every MP there is representing a much larger population than the MP of South India. Tharoor fears that when the seats are re-distributed (delimitation) on the basis of the new census, the seats in North India will increase significantly. According to him, then the northern states will have two-thirds majority in the Parliament and they will be able to impose their will on South India. Tharoor warned that every year someone will bring a proposal to make Hindi the national language and the Tamil people will immediately open a front against it.
Not only this, Tharoor also raised questions on the administration of a huge state like Uttar Pradesh. He asked whether it is right to keep UP as a single state with a population of 28 crores? He mentioned the old proposal of former Chief Minister Mayawati, in which there was a demand to divide UP into four parts. Tharoor believes that the States Reorganization Commission should now think again and seriously on this.
A befitting counterattack by Annamalai and Surya
On these words of Shashi Tharoor, BJP leader Annamalai surrounded him with figures. Annamalai, defending the new delimitation model, said that according to the census, the answer IndiaIt is natural for central states to get more seats. He raised questions on Congress as to why they are opposing this change? Annamalai said that if we go by the 2011 census, Tamil Nadu would get 50 seats, but in the new model it is getting 59 seats. He said that this is an opportunity for all the states to come together and form a consensus.
At the same time, Tejasvi Surya talked about ideological change. He said that it has taken hard work in the last 12 years to re-establish Swami Vivekananda’s principles in Bengal, his birthplace. According to Surya, after the results of Bengal elections, a revival of those fundamental principles is now being seen there.
During the debate, Tharoor also raised the issue of removing names from the voter list through SIR. He claimed that 91 lakh names were removed in Bengal, out of which 34 lakh people appealed claiming themselves to be genuine voters. Tharoor raised the question that when the victory margin is 30 lakh votes and lakhs of people are not able to vote, will it be considered completely democratic? However, he also added in a humorous tone that perhaps Congress got the benefit in Kerala because the Left party there (CPIM) was an expert in the game of registering the name of the same person multiple times.
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