Divide and rule is still the mantra as election nears
Jo Google kar sakta hai, wah tera bhagwan nahin kar sakta (What Google can do, your God cannot), whose video went viral on the internet. Parents of some students of the school staged demonstrations before the institution terming the play as an affront to sanatan dharma. They said the teacher who wrote the play belonged to a different faith and had purposely insulted their religion.
The school administration terminated the teacher. This is what happens when politics begins to exploit society. This chaos was sparked recently in Tamil Nadu at an event where Udhayanidhi Stalin, the son of chief minister M.K.
Stalin and a minister of the state cabinet, uttered such remarks for sanatan dharma. His words caused an uproar in North India. But Udhayanidhi said nothing new.
In the 1950s and 1960s, DMK founder C.N. Annadurai led a vigorous anti-Brahmin and anti-Brahminism movement. His remarks touched the hearts of the oppressed and backward sections of society.
His efforts led to the formation of the first non-Congress government in Tamil Nadu in 1967. Since then, the country’s oldest party has been unable to reclaim power in the state. It is another matter that Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam have been political allies for many years.
This is why the BJP’s IT cell seized the opportunity on social media. The embers of the fire that Annadurai stoked in Tamil Nadu half a century ago are singeing North and West India even today. If Annadurai’s views appeal to the majority of voters in Tamil Nadu, the same can play a significant role in uniting the majority this side of the Vindhyas.
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