BJP TN unit takes up Hindi issue with centre
28 Oct 2014 6:12 AM IST
The BJP’s state unit on Monday took up with centre the issue of alleged imposition of Hindi through commercial broadcast in state-run All India Radio (AIR).
Party’s state unit president Tamizhisai Sounderrajan took up the matter with union information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar in Delhi. Sounderrajan ‘requested Javadekar to stop the 4 hour commercial programme on AIR. The minister immediately asked his officials to stop the programmes,’ a release by the state BJP unit here said.
The PMK party founder S Ramadoss had said that centre had planned to impose Hindi through local broadcast by regional radio stations in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the name of commercial broadcast, claiming that its duration in Hindi had been fixed for 4 hours a day, effective 26 October.
Party’s state unit president Tamizhisai Sounderrajan took up the matter with union information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar in Delhi. Sounderrajan ‘requested Javadekar to stop the 4 hour commercial programme on AIR. The minister immediately asked his officials to stop the programmes,’ a release by the state BJP unit here said.
The PMK party founder S Ramadoss had said that centre had planned to impose Hindi through local broadcast by regional radio stations in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the name of commercial broadcast, claiming that its duration in Hindi had been fixed for 4 hours a day, effective 26 October.
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