MK Stalin asks Centre to recall Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi after row over state song

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday urged the Union government to recall Governor RN Ravi after a sentence with the word “Dravida” was omitted from the state song when it was sung at an event attended by the governor.

The state song, titled Tamil Thai Vaazhthu, is sung at the beginning of programmes organised by the Tamil Nadu government.

Earlier in the day, the governor attended an event celebrating “Hindi month” and commemorating the golden jubilee of Doordarshan Chennai, the public broadcaster, PTI reported. A choir from Doordarshan left out the sentence with the word “Dravida” while singing the state song at the event.

In response to this, Stalin said that omitting the word from the song was against the law of Tamil Nadu.

In a social media post, the chief of the state’s ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam said that the Union government should immediately recall Ravi, who was “deliberately insulting Tamil Nadu and the sentiments of the people of Tamil Nadu”.

The chief minister said that a person who did not act according to the law was unfit to hold the governor’s office. “Will the governor who suffers from Dravidian allergy ask them to leave out Dravidian in the national anthem?” he added.

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