Chennai, Oct 18 (Reporter) Hours after Chief Minister MK Stalin strongly condemned it and urged the Centre to immediately recall the Governor for deliberately insulting the State and the people of Tamil Nadu for disrespecting Mother Prayer Song Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu, Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi on Friday night termed it as a 'racist remark' and levelled false allegations against him. Mr Ravi graced the commemoration of the Hindi Month Valedictory function and the commemoration of the Golden Jubilee Celebration by Doordarshan Chennai at the DD premises where the controversy arose. In a clarification statement posed in X, Mr Ravi also said such unfortunately cheap racist remark lowers the dignity of the office of the Chief Minister. He also said that Mr Stalin knew well that he recite full Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu at every function and do so with reverence, pride and precision. Mr Ravi said he was constrained to respond since Mr Stalin rushed to public with his racist remarks and false imputations. Mr Ravi wrote "Hon'ble Chief Minister Thiru. @mkstalin has issued a regrettable tweet this evening in which he made a racist remark against me and levelled false allegation of showing disrespect to Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu." "He knows it well that I recite full Tamizh Thaai Vaazhthu at every function and do so with reverence, pride and precision", the Governor said. "He also knows that under leadership Hon'ble Prime Minister Thiru. @narendramodi the Central govt has proudly created several institutions for spread of Tamil language and heritage within India including Tamil Nadu and several countries of the world. #PMModi took Tamil even to the United Nations", Mr Ravi wrote. "As a proud Indian I myself have taken numerous substantive initiatives to spread Tamil, the oldest and richest living language, in other states of the country, the latest being to set up, with cooperation of the Assam govt, a Tamil diploma course in Gauhati University for spread of Tamil in the North East", the Governor recalled. "Making racist remark and alleging incorrect imputations against Governor by the Chief Minister is unfortunately cheap and lowers the dignity of the high constitutional office of the Chief Minister", he added. "Since he rushed to public with his racist remarks and false imputations I am constrained to respond." - Governor Ravi", the post said...////...