Udhagamandalam: After DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin, party’s another leader A Raja, a member of the Nilgiris Lok Sabha, claimed that Sanatana Dharma was like the HIV infection and needed to be eradicated.
On September 7, Raja claimed in a meeting with DMK booth agents in Udhagamandalam that people in North India had realised the necessity of defeating Hindutva forces and were now looking to the DMK and Dravidian parties for “the cure.”
The Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, he claimed, had not denounced the “barbarous” sexual assault of two Kuki women in Manipur, while Home Minister Amit Shah had justified it in a speech to the Parliament. “This is the state of the nation. India is on fire, and nobody is safe, he declared.
Last week, in his address at a meeting of the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association in Chennai, Stalin likened Sanatan Dharma to coronavirus, malaria and dengue and said such things should not be opposed but destroyed.
He, however, later claimed that he had not called for violence against the followers of Sanatan Dharma.
“Sanatan Dharma is a principle that divides people in the name of caste and religion. Uprooting Sanatan Dharma is upholding humanity and human equality,” he had alleged while reiterating his remarks against Sanatan Dharma, a term used by many Hindus to describe their religion.
