A government RTI response revealed that the DMK and Congress alliance spent 66 crores on the Tamil language and 815 crores on the Sanskrit language during the 2004 to 2014 period, exposing the DMK and Congress alliance’s double standards in accusing the BJP of spending more money for Sanskrit and discriminating against the Tamil language.
Yuvraj Ramalingam, an RTI activist, filed the RTI on December 12, 2022, seeking information from the Information Commissioner about grants released to the Central Institute of Classical Tamil and Central Sanskrit University (erstwhile Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan) from 2004 to 2014.
In response to the RTI, the Information Commissioner stated that Central Sanskrit University received Rs 815 crores in grants from the central government for the period 2004 to 2014, while Central University of Classical Tamil received Rs 66 crores during the same period.
Central Sanskrit University’s funds given by the DMK Congress government increased 380% from Rs 32 crores in 2004 to Rs 153.7 crores in 2014. The Central Institute of Classical Tamil’s grants from the government increased from Rs 2.82 crores in 2006 to Rs 12.3 crores in 2014.
It should be noted that the Union government under Modi increased grants to Central Sanskrit University from Rs 125 crores to Rs 198 crores, a 58% increase, far less than the DMK-Congress government’s increase in funding to Sanskrit between 2004 to 2014.
தமிழுக்கு வெறும் 66 கோடி! ஆனால் சமஸ்கிருதத்திற்கு 815 கோடி நிதிஒதுக்கீடு
கொடுத்தது BJP இல்லைங்க 2004-2014 வரை ஆட்சியிலிருந்த காங்கிரஸ்-திமுக-பாமக-கம்யூனிஸ்ட் UPA கூட்டணி அரசாங்கம்
ஆனால் நம்ம காங்கிரஸ் ஜோதிமணி BJP ஆட்சிக்குவந்தவுடன் அதிக நிதி ஒதுக்கியதாக கம்பு சுத்தறாங்க
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— Yuvaraj Ramalingam (@YuvarajPollachi) January 10, 2023
It is worth noting that when the details about the Modi government’s spending on Central Sanskrit University were released in response to a question raised by Congress MP Jothimani, the entire Tamil media and DMK supporters disguised as social activists made a hue and cries on the news channels, claiming that the Tamil language is discriminated against. The RTI activist Yuvraj Ramalingam questioned whether the Tamil media would cover his RTI expose in the same way that they did for Congress MP Jothimani.
கடந்த 8 ஆண்டுகளில் ஒன்றிய அரசு சமஸ்கிருதத்துக்கு ஒதுக்கிய நிதி ரூ.1,488 கோடி, தமிழுக்கு ரூ.74 கோடி ஒதுக்கீடு! நாடாளுமன்றத்தில் எனது கேள்விக்கு ஒன்றிய மோடி அரசு பதில். தமிழ்நாட்டிற்கும்,தமிழுக்கும் எதிரானது பாஜக . pic.twitter.com/e2H4WFs4iS
— Jothimani (@jothims) December 29, 2022
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