Published 18:17 IST, July 22nd 2019
After Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth also backs Suriya over language debate from National Education Policy Draft, says 'Modi has heard him'
Rajinikanth backed Suriya's controversial comment about Centre’s new education policy draft, after Kamal Haasan had also expressed his support to the ‘Ghajini’ actor.
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Rajinikanth backed Suriya's controversial comment about Centre’s new education policy draft, after Kamal Haasan h also expressed his support to ‘Ghajini’ actor.
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new education policy draft, which was released by HRD a month back, created a massive outr politically as Hindi was me third compulsory langu, whereas state of Tamil Nu has been following two-langu system. Hence, Tamil parties including DMK raised issue in a big way after which policy was revised.
Amid controversy over draft, Tamil actor Suriya, who is running Agaram Foundation, an NGO initiated to educate ecomically backward students, at trust's event last week, criticised HRD's draft policy and said that it'll t help poor from rural areas and only ecomically well-off students in urban areas were to gain from it. He also spoke about disvants of widely-debated NEET exam, which also sparked a row.
A day after his comment about new education policy, BJP leers like Tamilisai Soundararajan and H Raja as well as AIMK ministers like Jayakumar and Kambur Raju started lashing out at Suriya. y called him igrant and asked him to refrain from commenting without understanding policy.
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Makkal Needhi Maiam leer Kamal Haasan immediately gave out a statement, supporting Suriya and stated that what he h said is right and must be introspected.
However, real surprise was when Superstar Rajinikanth also spoke against draft policy of HRD. Rajinikanth, who participated in Suriya’s ‘Kaapaan’ audio launch function in Chennai, supported Suriya's comment on new education policy.
Rajinikanth said "I second what Suriya said about new education policy. I got to kw about this side of Suriya just few days ago. People say that Modi will hear when I speak. But this time, Modi heard Suriya's speech. Suriya is witnessing hardships of students and he is helping m in many ways."
This was a big surprise for everyone as Rajinikanth, who has anunced his political entry and waits to start a party, is seen someone close to BJP. veteran criticising Centre's policy and backing an actor who lashed policy of HRD, has raised eyebrows.
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Meanwhile, Suriya expressed his gratitude to Rajinikanth for attending his film’s event with a tweet and termed it as a ‘life time memory.’
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17:26 IST, July 22nd 2019