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CHENNAI: The CPM’s State council on Tuesday termed the demand for the bifurcation of Tamil Nadu as a narrow-minded idea as such a move would only act a stumbling block to the development of the State. “For a nation like India that has multiple races, languages and cultural aspects, continuation of linguistic States would be appropriate for the integrity of the country,’’ a resolution adopted at the two-day executive committee of the CPM’s State council, which ended here on December 14.
Describing the demand for bifurcation of Tamil Nadu made by the PMK and some other outfits `very dangerous idea,’ the CPM said linguistic States were formed only after a wave of agitations and TN was among such States. The present Tamil Nadu was formed after massive agitations to include Chennai and Kanyakumari district.