Tamil Nadu minister Stalin Jr’s comments on Sanatana Dharma triggers rebuke across South
Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remarks on the Hindu religion sparked sharp reactions across southern India with the BJP units in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu coming down heavily on the young DMK leader.
Stalin said at an event in Chennai on Saturday that the Sanatana Dharma was like dengue and malaria, and that they should think of not fighting it but eradicating it. Congress MP Karti Chidambaram’s endorsement of the statement fuelled demands for Karnataka’s ruling party to clarify its stand on the matter.
The BJP's Karnataka unit said, «Rahul Gandhi's friend and ally Udhayanidhi Stalin spews venom against Hindus by saying Sanatana Dharma is like malaria, dengue and must be eradicated.
Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, close aide of Rahul Gandhi, also endorses this genocidal call against Hindus. Will 'Election Hindus' @siddaramaiah and @DKShivakumar condemn these atrocious remarks targeting Hindus or choose silence to keep their allies happy?”.
BJP TN unit chief K Annamalai said »...The word 'Sanatana Dharma' was there even before the Christian religion or Islamic religion came.
'Sanatana Dharma' means eternal, timeless dharma. It has been there for a long long time...What Udhayanidhi spoke yesterday should be condemned by the 142 crore people of the country because hatred for a particular religion came out yesterday.
He was reading the speech from a text, which was consciously prepared. The eradication of a particular culture is called genocide… Who is Udhayanidhi Stalin to abolish 'Sanatana Dharma'?..."
Union minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar, in a post on social media platform X, urged the Congress to clarify whether it supported Stalin’s stand and if it too pursued a
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