"Delusional": In the midst of the NEP, Hindi dispute, the BJP responds to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin's "LKG" statement.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) alliance are engaged in a bitter political slugfest over the ongoing controversy surrounding the alleged imposition of a third language under Tamil Nadu's National Education Policy (NEP).

MK Stalin was criticized by BJP state head K Annamalai for "swinging" his "paper word against the delusional Hindi imposition" on Friday, while Union home minister Amit Shah asked Stalin to start engineering and medical education in Tamil in the state.

Following remarks by Tamil Nadu chief minister Stalin that compared the NEP to "an LKG student lecturing a PhD holder," Amit Shah and Annamalai argued that Tamil Nadu had already accomplished many of the policy's objectives.