The Congress in Tamil Nadu on Tuesday announced it would hold a black flag demonstration against Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his future visit to the state in protest against his Hindi pitch.
Asserting that Tamil Nadu Congress was second to none in opposing "Hindi imposition," the party accused Shah of slighting the safeguards provided to non-Hindi speaking people in the Constitution and the Official Languages Act, 1963.
A special consultative meeting chaired by TNCC chief K S Alagiri, in a resolution, attacked Shah for his "arrogant views," favouring Hindi as "the only official language of India."
The TNCC, however, said it was not opposed to Hindi but only its imposition. "Nobody can mistake someone learning Hindi on his own interest."