A meeting of the DMK’s student wing on Friday (February 21, 2025) resolved to stage continuous protests against the BJP-led Union government until funds due to Tamil Nadu, under various schemes and education programmes, were released. It has also decided to take part in the protests on February 25, 2025, called by the Federation of Student Organisations-Tamil Nadu (FSO-TN).

One of the resolutions adopted in the meeting held at DMK’s head office in Chennai demanded that Union Minister for Education Dharmendra Pradhan “tender an unconditional apology to the people of Tamil Nadu” over his recent remarks (on Tamil Nadu’s two-language policy) and withdraw them.

“The BJP-led Union government could not tolerate that Tamil Nadu has been excelling in education, medicine and health, and industrial development, among others. Only because of its frustration that it could not set foot in Tamil Nadu, the BJP-led Union government is engaging in activities against the people of Tamil Nadu,” the resolution read.

Recalling the steps taken by former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai against attempts to impose Hindi on Tamil Nadu, the resolution underlined similar measures by DMK president and Chief Minister M.K. Stalin against fresh bids to impose the language on the State. With the approval of the CM and the guidance of the Deputy CM, protests would be organised against HIndi imposition, the resolution said.

The meeting also resolved to launch a campaign advocating for rationalism to foil the “plan of the RSS and the BJP government” to sow seeds of “retrograde” ideas along religious lines in Tamil Nadu. “It is our duty to defeat the agenda of the RSS to spread superstitions, retrograde religious ideas, and Hindutva in Tamil Nadu,” it said.

Another resolution thanked the Chief Minister for releasing the report ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent radiometric dates from Tamil Nadu’ and announcing major findings by the State Department of Archaeology.