Chennai: “Does saying the names DMK, Karunanidhi, and M.K. Stalin make you feel extremely insecure, Chief Minister?” DMK MP Kanimozhi N.V.N. Somu has asked.
In this regard, in a post published on her X page, she said, “Does saying the names DMK, Karunanidhi, and M.K. Stalin make you feel extremely insecure, Chief Minister? It was Karunanidhi who issued the government order on March 10, 1970, declaring Manonmaniam Sundaranar’s Tamil Thai Vazhthu as the state song, and on 23.11.1970, stating that it should be sung first at all government functions.
Seeing them speak vaguely and dodge the issue by saying it was introduced in the 70s, without even having the courage to say that the DMK government gave this recognition, makes it crystal clear how much this reel government resents the achievements of the DMK government. On December 17, 2021, then Chief Minister Stalin issued a government order recognizing the Tamil Thai Vazhthu as the state song and directing that it be sung first at all government and public events.
The Chief Minister, who speaks as if Tamil is his very breath of life, why did he not condemn the Governor, who sent a circular to give the Tamil Thai Vazhthu third place, or the administrators of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, who said they would obey only the Governor’s word?
It is amusing that even to praise Tamil with phrases like “Tamil means swagger. Tamil means power,” you have to search for words in English. You could have brought this special resolution you have introduced today in the previous Assembly session itself.
Do not try to put a sticker on the history of our rights struggle, just as stickers were pasted on the DMK’s schemes. “Even if a thousand hands cover it, the sun cannot be hidden,” he said.
