Prasar Bharti orders 15-min Sanskrit bulletins, Tamil Nadu leaders slam Centre

Political parties in Tamil Nadu condemned a directive from Prasar Bharati to regional satellite channels to run a daily Sanskrit bulletin for 15 minutes.

“The Government of India has a great responsibility to ensure the unity of a diverse country by giving equal status to all 22 languages, including classical Tamil, in the eighth schedule of the Constitution,” DMK president MK Stalin said in a statement.

“The BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since the day his government came to power, has been only imposing Hindi, Sanskrit. Dominating other languages and undermining unity at all levels,” said Stalin, slamming imposition of language on a plural society.