Dayanidhi Maran's remark on Bihar workers surfaces again, Tejashwi Yadav condemns comment
Hindi heartland were constructing houses, cleaning roads and toilets in Tamil Nadu was condemned by Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav, whose party, the RJD, is a constituent of the INDIA bloc like the DMK.
The RJD leader condemning Maran's comment assumes significance in the wake of the BJP questioning the 'silence' of parties that constitute the opposition alliance.The DMK has slammed the BJP for spreading 'falsehood,' asserting that Maran only stressed on learning the English language.
Yadav said, like his party, the RJD, the DMK headed by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, was a party that believed in social justice and it was unbecoming of a leader of such a party to have made such a remark.
«We look upon DMK as a party which shares our ideal of social justice.
Its leaders should avoid saying things that run counter to the ideal», said Yadav, who is known to share personal equations with Stalin.
Addressing an event in March this year, Maran said that study of both Tamil and English had been championed by his party all along and the people of Tamil Nadu followed it.
Citing the example of Sundar Pichai, a native of Tamil Nadu, Maran said he now heads Google and had he learnt Hindi, he would have been employed in the construction sector as a worker.
Since children from Tamil Nadu get educated and learn English well, they find employment in the Information Technology sector and earn good salaries.
In the video clip, Maran purportedly said that people in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar who had learnt 'only Hindi,' construct houses, clean roads and toilets in Tamil Nadu, after learning Tamil. «This is the scenario if Hindi is learnt.»
The video clip showing Maran's alleged remark resurfaced on
