Kanniyakumari, April 6 -- BJP leader and NDA candidate S Vijayadharani alleged that Chief Minister MK Stalin is deliberately depriving students in the state of the opportunity to learn Hindi.

Vijayadharani also alleged that Hindi is a compulsory subject in schools run by Chief Minister Stalin's family, but they want to deprive poor people of it.

"Members of Stalin's family run a school in Chennai called 'Sunrise'. In that school, Hindi is a compulsory subject. Students studying in that private school are taught Hindi. In such a situation, Stalin should answer why he wants to deprive children from poor families of the opportunity to learn Hindi," she told ANI.

"This is a diluted formula that the Chief Minister keeps bringing up repeated...