Sad I Don't Know Tamil': After PM Modi, Amit Shah Plays Language Card in Poll-bound Tamil Nadu

Sad I Don't Know Tamil': After PM Modi, Amit Shah Plays Language Card in Poll-bound Tamil Nadu Hours after Prime Ministe...

Sad I Don't Know Tamil': After PM Modi, Amit Shah Plays Language Card in Poll-bound Tamil Nadu

Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he regretted not being able to learn the world’s oldest language Tamil during his long political innings as a chief minister and prime minister, Home Minister Amit Shah followed suit.

Addressing a Vijay Sankalp election rally in Viluppuram in Tamil Nadu, Shah also rued the fact that he couldn’t talk to his supporters in ‘one of the oldest, sweetest languages’.

Shah asked people to choose between the “sons and daughters of kings and emperors” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development agenda. The DMK-Congress alliance “believes in dynasty politics,” he said.

“On one side there is the NDA that protects India. Today none can dare do anything in India’s borders. Pakistan dared to do things in Uri, Pulwama. Narendra Modi taught it a lesson by entering its house (and carry out attacks) by directing the military,” he said in reference to the Balakot air strikes. The Indian Air Force had in February 2019 attacked terror launch pads in Pakistan’s Balakot area, days after over 40 CRPF jawans were killed in a terror attack in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.