'Some Technical Issue': LIC Responds After Stalin Accuses Hindi Imposition on Its Website

Chennai: state-run insurance company Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) on Tuesday, said a "technical problem" caused switch of its website to Hindi in Tamil Nu. This led to protests in state, with people calling it "linguistic tyranny" and demanding that change be reversed immediately. "Our corporate website was not shuffling language page due to some technical problem. issue is resolved now, and website is available in English/Hindi language. Inconvenience caused is deeply regretted," LIC said in a clarification as row escalated. 

MK Stalin called LIC Website Reduced To Propaganda Tool For Hindi Imposition

Soon after news of website's switch to Hindi spre, Tamil Nu Chief Minister M K Stalin took strong exception to use of Hindi language on website of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, and said that website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for imposing Hindi.

Posting a screenshot of LIC of India webpage containing Hindi, chief minister said in a post on social media platform 'X': " LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even option to select English is displayed in Hindi!" This, he claimed, was nothing but cultural and language imposition by force, trampling on India's diversity.

"LIC grew with patronage of all Indians. How dare it betray majority of its contributors? We demand an immediate rollback of this linguistic tyranny. #StopHindiImposition," chief minister said in post.

BJP Ally Dr. S. Ramoss Slams LIC's Move as "Blatant Imposition" of Hindi

Terming move as a "blatant imposition" of Hindi on or language-speaking people, BJP 's ally and PMK founder Dr S Ramoss, said this attempt by LIC is highly condemnable as it was trying to "push" a language among non-Hindi speaking people.

"Giving sudden priority to Hindi alone is not acceptable as LIC has a customer base drawn from people from diverse languages in India," Dr Ramoss said in a post on 'X'.

He reminded that both Centre and or institutions under control of union government belonged to all sections of people and not just to Hindi-speaking population.

"Hence, home page of LIC of India should immediately be changed to English and a Tamil version website should be started," he said.

AIMK Leer Edappi K. Palaniswami Criticises LIC's Hindi-Only Website

AIMK general secretary Edappi K Palaniswami flayed LIC for making it all Hindi and said revamped website was currently unusable for people who did not know that language.

" language change option on website is also in Hindi and is not possible to find it. It is reprehensible that central government is going to any extent in imposing Hindi," he said on 'X'.

TNCC Chief Calls for Immediate Halt to Hindi Imposition

It was not acceptable to impose a language in India, a country of diverse languages, cultures, and politics. Hence, Centre should change default language of website to English for all people to use and desist from taking furr action to thrust Hindi, former chief minister said.

Strongly condemning Centre, TNCC chief K Selvaperunthagai, called upon Centre to immediately abandon all activities aimed at imposing language on non-Hindi speaking states. 

(With PTI inputs)