Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and other political leaders criticized Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) for allegedly using Hindi predominantly on its website. They called it a form of Hindi imposition and demanded a rollback.

LIC attributes the default Hindi setting on its website to a technical glitch, following backlash from Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Tuesday took strong exception to the use of Hindi language on the website of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India, and said that the website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for imposing Hindi.

CHENNAI: Chief Minister MK Stalin, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, PMK founder S Ramadoss, MDMK general secretary Vaiko and many leaders on Tue

Tamil Nadu opposes “imposition of Hindi” in every form and has been following a two-language formula of Tamil and English.

Posting a screenshot of the LIC webpage, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin wrote in a post on X: “The LIC website has been reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition. Even the option to select English is displayed in Hindi!

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin recently on a social media post accused Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of using its website to promote Hindi, claiming it was part of an agenda to impose the language on non-Hindi speaking regions.

Taking to the social media platform earlier, Stalin posted a screenshot of the website, pointing out that even the option to switch to English was displayed in Hindi.

Condemning the public sector Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) for turning its widely used website into Hindi, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Tuesday (Nov 18) described it as linguistic tyranny and demanded its immediate rollback.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin strongly criticised the use of the Hindi language on the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India's website in Tamil Nadu, saying that the portal has been "reduced to a propaganda tool for Hindi imposition".