Minister, MLA speak in Hindu, Urdu in TN assembly

The state Assembly in Tamil Nadu, known for its opposition to imposition of Hindi, today witnessed a rare spectacle of a member and a Minister using multiple languages, including Hindi and Urdu, during a debate.
Congress member K Gopinath, representing Hosur on Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border, started speaking in chaste Tamil about basic amenities for a school in his constituency.
Finding it difficult to put across his views in Tamil, which was not his mother tongue, he switched over to Telugu and then Urdu and Hindi.
School Education Minister K C Veeramani also responded in all the three languages -- Telugu, Hindu and Urdu -- amid thumping of desks by ruling AIADMK members.

Aslam Basha (Manithaneya Makkal Katchi) also intervened and started talking in Urdu.
At this stage, Deputy Speaker 'Pollachi' Jayaraman, who was in the chair, intervened and urged the Minister and the MLA to converse in Tamil, saying he can only understand Tamil, leading to a round of laughter in the House.