<div dir="ltr"><h1 class="entry-title gmail-penci-entry-title gmail-penci-title-" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:5px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:3rem;clear:both;line-height:1.2;font-family:Chivo,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,17,17)">DMK bats for ‘two-language’ policy across nation</h1><div class="entry-meta gmail-penci-entry-meta" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 11px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:1.2rem;color:rgb(153,153,153);line-height:1.5"><span class="entry-meta-item gmail-penci-byline" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 1px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;display:inline-block;color:inherit">by <span class="gmail-author gmail-vcard" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;color:inherit"><a class="gmail-url gmail-fn gmail-n" href="https://hwnews.in/author/pti" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit">PTI</a></span></span><span class="entry-meta-item gmail-penci-posted-on" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 10px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;display:inline-block;color:inherit"><span class="gmail-fa gmail-fa-clock-o" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:1;font-family:FontAwesome;display:inline-block;color:inherit"></span>June 4, 2019</span></div><div class="entry-media gmail-penci-entry-media" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;width:643px;max-width:100%;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div class="gmail-post-format-meta" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:top;background:transparent;text-align:center;overflow:hidden;height:361.688px"><div class="gmail-post-image gmail-penci-standard-format" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><img width="960" height="540" src="https://hwnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MK-Stalin-960x540.jpg" class="gmail-attachment-penci-thumb-960-auto gmail-size-penci-thumb-960-auto gmail-wp-post-image" alt="" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block;"></div></div></div><div class="gmail-penci-entry-content entry-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:1.5em 0px 24px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.7;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-weight:700">Chennai |</span> The two-language formula devised by Dravidian icon C N Annadurai should be implemented across the country, the DMK proposed on Tuesday, a day after the Centre dropped the contentious provision of compulsory teaching of Hindi in non-Hindi speaking states.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">In an editorial, DMK mouthpiece ‘Murasoli’ demanded a “full-stop” to the issue.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">On the Centre’s decision to revise the draft National Education Policy(NEP) to drop the three-language proposal, the party daily said this was done following opposition to the proposal.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent">“The Centre has retreated. Imposing (Hindi) and retreating is their chameleon like acting,” it said.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;b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