The Andhra Pradesh deputy CM’s remarks came in the backdrop of the row triggered by his ‘movie dub’ statement earlier in the day. Amid the brewing tensions over his remark on Tamil movies being ‘dubbed’ in Hindi, Andhra Pradesh deputy chief minister Pawan Kalyan on Saturday issued a clarification, saying that he “never opposed the Hindi language”.
The Jana Sena Party chief took to X and condemned the misinterpretation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 “for a political agenda” and dismissed claims of him changing his stance on the policy, saying that it shows a “lack of mutual understanding”.
He affirmed that his party stands stern for linguistic freedom and its principles, and the educational choice for every India.
“Both the tendencies of forcible imposition of a language or blindly opposing a language are not helpful in achieving the basic objective of national and cultural unity of our country India,” Kalyan said.
