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MDMK stages protest; demands removal of cartoon from textbook

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Press Trust of India Chennai

Party chief Vaiko led the protest here and demanded that the controversial cartoon regarding the movement be removed from a Class XII NCERT textbook.

Vaiko had earlier written to Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal saying that the anti-hindi agitation, launched by Dravidian veteran and DMK founder C N Annadurai, was a "glorious chapter" in Tamil Nadu's political history but the cartoon had depicted students as if they were ignorant and indulged in violence.

  

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First Published: Jun 11 2012 | 3:15 PM IST

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