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A CISF officer at an airport reportedly expressed doubts about Kanimozhi’s nationality.

DMK MP Kanimozhi Sunday said an officer from the Central Industrial Security Force asked her if she was Indian when she asked the official to speak in Tamil or English.

Narrating the incident on Twitter, Kanimozhi said: “Today at the airport, a CISF officer asked me if ‘I am an Indian’ when I asked him to speak to me in Tamil or English as he did not know Hindi.”

“I would like to know when being an Indian is the same as knowing Hindi. #hindiimposition, “Kanimozhi, who is also the secretary for DMK’s women’s wing, said on her Twitter account.

Several social media users responded by supporting her, including Sivaganga MP Karti Chidambaram. “Absolutely ridiculous. Highly condemnable. A language test, what’s next? @CISFHQrs should answer! “he tweeted.

Recently, DMK President M K Stalin said that the Center’s new National Education Policy (NEP) was an attempt to “impose” Hindi and Sanskrit. “With education included in the State List, the Center will take over the remaining rights of the states and assume their control (aspects ranging from the study program to the university,” Stalin had said. “This is an attack on the structured federal which is being undermined by the Constitution of India, ”he said.

The debate on the “imposition of Hindi” was sparked after a committee under the then Ministry of Human Resources and Development, in a draft report on the New Education Policy in January last year, recommended Hindi as a mandatory language it will be taught in schools across the country through the tenth class. Facing criticism from various quarters, especially from southern states, the Center removed the contentious clause on compulsory Hindi teaching in a revised draft in June.