Presiding over a seminar on ‘Engum Tamil, Ethilum Tamil’ held as part of the World classical tamil conference in Coimbatore last night he said good relations between the central and state governments resulted in tamil getting classical status.
Karunanidhi announced that the Tamil classical research institute will start functioning at the old secretariat.
He said the demands including making compulsory Tamil from primary education level, recruitment of qualified Tamil teachers at all levels and the constitution of a classical Tamil sangham besides opening of its branches in all places where Tamils will be considered and announcements on these will be made at the end of the conference.
Senior leader of the CPIM Sitaram Yechury said Tamil language continued to develop unlike other classical languages such as Latin because it had maintained its liveliness by being constantly being spoken among people.He said that the Left parties had played a significant role during the previous tenure of the United Progressive Alliance in fighting for classical language status for Tamil.
CPI National Secretary D Raja in his address said Language does not belong to one community or a party and united efforts to promote Tamil should be made by breaking political barriers.
Over 20 leaders of various political parties addressed the seminar.
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