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DMK MP Kathir Anand’s CBSE School Offers Hindi, Tamil, And Telugu Contrary To His Party’s Anti-NEP, Anti-Hindi Rhetoric

February 24, 2025
The Commune

The Dravidianist parties in Tamil Nadu, especially the DMK and its notable allies have been protesting against the alleged imposition of Hindi under the NEP 2020 in the state. While there is no known imposition, the education policy mandates that students study 3 languages as part of their curriculum. Dravidianists faking their love for Tamil allege that such practices will erase Tamil and impose Hindi (when the mandate is that students can learn any other language, not necessarily Hindi).

However, this hypocrisy gets exposed every single day given that political party leaders in Tamil Nadu, the majority of them if not all, run schools as well.

This time it is DMK MP Kathir Anand’s turn. He is the son of DMK Minister Duraimurugan. Kathir Anand is the Chairman of Kingston Group of Institutions, Vellore and his wife Sangeetha Kathir Anand is the Chairwoman.

This school is a CBSE school located in Vellore and they proudly claim that the school offers holistic learning. Ironically, for all the drama the DMK members do about 3-language policy and NEP2020, this school offers Hindi, Tamil, and even Telugu as an option for languages to the students.

We had earlier exposed that nearly 30-40 DMK members had a CBSE school attached to them.

Kathir Anand is already on that list along with DMK allies and Dravidianist parties like the TVK.

DMK MLA Markandeyan’s Sri Ambal Vidhyalaya

Now, DMK MLA GV Markandeyan is under the spotlight. He is one of the managing trustees of a CBSE school named Sri Ambal Vidhyalaya in Vilathikulam, Thoothukudi. This is an English-medium CBSE school. It is noteworthy that GV Markandeyan is an MLA from the same constituency – Vilathikulam.

Part-Time Politician Vijay’s Vijay Vidyashram

Part-time politician Vijay was exposed a few days ago for running a CBSE school that promotes learning Hindi. Some videos of the students at the school have been circulating on social media. These are most likely from the school’s Instagram handle. In one such video is a Hindi play performed by Class 3 students. This is from a performance for Hindi Diwas.

VCK MP Thirumavalavan’s Blue Star Secondary School

Anti-NEP and Anti-Hindi VCK chief Thirumavalavan was also exposed recently by TN BJP President K Annamalai. Thirumavalavan ias associated with Blue Star Secondary School, a CBSE-affiliated school in Velachery, Chennai, which offers trilingual education.

The blatant hypocrisy of the Dravidianist parties and its allies cannot be ignored. While they vocally criticize the three-language policy and present themselves as champions of Tamil, the inconvenient truth is that they all run CBSE schools in Tamil Nadu that directly follows the very policy they claim to oppose. Their attempt to position themselves as saviours of Tamil language rights crumbles in the face of this exposed contradiction.

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