Congress member K Gopinath, representing Hosur on Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border, started speaking in chaste Tamil about basic amenities for a school in his constituency.
Finding it difficult to put across his views in Tamil, which was not his mother tongue, he switched over to Telugu and then Urdu and Hindi.
School Education Minister K C Veeramani also responded in all the three languages -- Telugu, Hindu and Urdu -- amid thumping of desks by ruling AIADMK members.
At this stage, Deputy Speaker 'Pollachi' Jayaraman, who was in the chair, intervened and urged the Minister and the MLA to converse in Tamil, saying he can only understand Tamil, leading to a round of laughter in the House.
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