Tamil Nadu Congress chief B Manickam Tagore on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, asserting that the state will never accept the NEP, which he alleged is a tool to impose the RSS's "politics of hate." Criticising the governor's recent remarks advocating for the NEP and expressing regret over the inability to implement the traditional "Gurukul" system, Tagore, in a statement, warned the Lok Bhavan against encroaching upon the educational rights of a democratically elected state government. "The governor must realise that Tamil Nadu will never accept the National Education Policy (NEP), which imposes the RSS's politics of hate," he said. "Ever since the BJP government led by Narendra Modi came to power at the Centre, it has been systematically dismantling and destroying the education system built during the Congress regime since the days of Pandit Nehru," he alleged. Stating that "education for all" was the sole objective of the Congress ...
About 1,000 agitators, mostly teachers, correspondents and management staff of 140 institutions participated in the demonstration