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A political war of words erupted following Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's address at the Chhatron Ki Goonj event in Chennai. Gandhi alleged that the central government is attacking Tamil language and culture, pointing to 3,300 crore rupees being withheld under the new education policy, an 87 percent fall in Tamil-medium students' share of MBBS seats due to NEET, vacancies in state university vice-chancellor posts, and delimitation. Hitting back, the Bharatiya Janata Party called the allegations baseless and unfounded, asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has consistently respected the Tamil language and elevated it across national and international forums.

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00:00Prime Minister's visit comes just a day after Rahul Gandhi's Chhatro Ki Goonj event in Chennai,
00:06where he claimed that the Prime Minister is attacking Tamil language and culture.
00:11But the BJP has strongly hit back, saying Rahul is making baseless allegations
00:15and asserting that Prime Minister Modi has always upheld the prestige of Tamil language.
00:23So how is Modi and Shah destroying the foundation of curiosity?
00:30The first is language imposition.
00:343,300 crores withheld from Tamil Nadu via the new education policy.
00:44Money that is yours, that you should get, is being withheld from you by the government of India.
00:51Second, centralization.
00:55There is an 87% fall in Tamil medium students' share of MBBS seats because of NEET.
01:06Third, RSSification.
01:0970% of your state universities are without vice chancellors because the governor wants to ensure that RSS people run
01:22your universities.
01:23And finally, the latest act, representation, delimitation, which is designed to punish Tamil Nadu and reduce its voice in the
01:37national parliament.
01:39These are attacks on the people of Tamil Nadu, on your language, on your tradition, on your culture, on your
01:46history.
01:47And Modi uses fear, hatred, and division to carry out these attacks.
01:57We are not going to let Narendra Modi attack the Tamil language, Tamil history, Tamil culture, nothing.
02:08He is not going to touch Tamil Nadu.
02:11We are not going to touch on that.
02:41We are not going to touch on that.

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