Dravidar Kazhagam president K. Veeramani and Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister K. Ponmudy said attempts to impose Hindi will never work in Tamil Nadu, while speaking at the two-day national-level conference on “education, social justice and federalism”, organised by the students wing of DMK that began here, on Saturday.
Inaugurating the conference, Mr. Veeramani said even C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), who, according to him was often described as an extremely clever person, had to change his stance on Hindi. He pointed out that Rajaji, who vehemently opposed the anti-Hindi struggle from 1937 to 1939, had to change his stance to “English ever, Hindi never,” in the mid-sixties.
