New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Okay. Stalin known as the central authorities’s introduction of three payments to switch the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the Felony Process Code (CrPC), and the Indian Proof Act “recolonisation within the title of decolonisation”, a transfer that reeks of “linguistic imperialism”.
On Friday, Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah launched three payments — the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 to switch the IPC, 1860; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 to switch the CrPC, 1973, and the Bharatiya Sakshya Invoice, 2023 to switch the Indian Proof Act, 1872.
In an extended submit on social media platform ‘X’, Stalin stated: “The audacious try by the Union BJP Authorities to tamper with the essence of India’s range by a sweeping overhaul — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Invoice — reeks of linguistic imperialism”.
Calling the payments an affront to the very basis of India’s unity, the Tamil Nadu CM stated the BJP and Modi had “no ethical proper to even utter the phrase Tamil hereafter”.
“The hearth of resistance towards #HindiColonialism is ablaze as soon as extra. The BJP’s audacious bid to supplant our identification with Hindi shall be opposed resolutely. #StopHindiImposition,” Stalin’s submit stated.
#Recolonisation within the title of #Decolonisation!
The audacious try by the Union BJP Authorities to tamper with the essence of India’s range by a sweeping overhaul – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, and Bharatiya Sakshya Invoice – reeks of… https://t.co/UTSs9AtUGW
— M.Okay.Stalin (@mkstalin) August 11, 2023
Via the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, the federal government introduced it might eliminate the supply of sedition (124A of the Indian Penal Code). As a substitute, it introduces Part 150, which recommends imprisonment for all times, or imprisonment as much as seven years for many who “excites or makes an attempt to excite, secession or armed rise up or subversive actions, or encourages emotions of separatist actions or endangers sovereignty or unity and integrity of India, or indulges in or commits any such act”.
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Heated debate on language imposition
The monsoon session of Parliament additionally noticed some heated debates on language imposition and Tamil tradition.
Taking part in a debate on the Opposition’s movement of no-confidence, Kanimozhi, DMK’s MP from Thoothukudi, informed the ruling BJP authorities that being in energy got here with a set of tasks.
“You introduced Sengol to the brand new Parliament with a whole lot of pomp and present. You stated it was the Chola custom. You don’t know Tamil Nadu’s historical past correctly. Have you ever heard concerning the Pandyan Sengol? The Pandyan Sengol burned, shattered when the king failed the frequent individuals. Have you learnt the story of Kannagi? Please, cease imposing Hindi on us and please learn the Silapadhikaram. It has a whole lot of classes to show you all,” she stated, referring to the Sangam-era Tamil epic.
Responding to this Thursday, Union Minister for Finance Nirmala Sitharaman spoke at size in Tamil whereas attempting to defend her social gathering.
“In Tamil Nadu, for a number of years, within the title of opposing Hindi imposition, there was an imposition that individuals mustn’t be taught Hindi or Sanskrit. There was an ideological imposition,” she stated within the Home. “Regardless of how a lot energy it’s important to propagate Tamil, you can not deny individuals the proper to be taught Hindi and Sanskrit. I’m telling you from my private expertise.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, she stated, was channeling the spirit of Silapathikaram. Quoting Mylai Ponnuswamy Sivagnanam, an creator, freedom fighter and politician recognized popularly as Ma.Po.Si. whose in depth analysis on Silapathikaram earned him the title ‘Silambu Chelvar’, Sitharaman stated: “Ma.Po.Si. wrote in 1951 that we’re Tamils, not Dravidians; our motherland is Tamilakam, not Dravidam. He talks of India’s oneness, however a separatist language influences the form of language that Kanimozhi speaks”.
(Edited by Uttara Ramaswamy)
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