INDIA Alliance Talking About 'Sanatana Dharma' For Vote Bank Politics: Shah Amid Row Over Stalin's Comment

Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday came down heavily on the DMK and their INDIA alliance partner Congress over talking about ending 'Sanatana Dharma', while hitting out at Rahul Gandhi for "comparing Hindu organisations with proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba".

Taking on DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his remark on 'Sanatan Dharma' that it should be eradicated, Amit Shah said, "For the last two days, the INDIA alliance has been insulting 'Sanatana Dharma'. Leaders of DMK and Congress are talking about ending 'Sanatana Dharma' just for vote bank politics. This is not the first time they have insulted our 'Sanatana Dharma".

He slammed both the DMK and Congress in poll-bound Rajasthan.

The Union Home Minister recalled former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's earlier remarks that the first right on the budget is of the minorities, "but we say that the first right is for the poor, tribals, Dalits and backwards". "Today, the Congress party says that if Modi ji will win, Sanatana will rule. Rahul Gandhi said that the Hindu organisations are more dangerous than Lashkar-e-Taiba". The top BJP leader took a dig at Rahul Gandhi for "comparing Hindu organisations with Lashkar-e-Taiba".

Speaking at an event in Chennai on Saturday, Udhayanidhi Stalin said, "Few things cannot be opposed, they should only be abolished. We can't oppose Dengue, mosquitoes, Malaria, or Corona, we have to eradicate them. In the same way, we have to eradicate Sanatana (Sanatan Dharma). Rather than merely opposing Sanatana, it should be eradicated."

Various Hindu religious leaders have also criticised the DMK leader's comments on 'Sanatana Dharma'.

Tamil Nadu BJP Chief Annamalai slammed Stalin and said "The only resolve that the Gopalapuram Family has is to accumulate wealth beyond the State GDP. Thiru @Udhaystalin, you, your father, or his or your idealogue have a bought-out idea from Christian missionaries & the idea of those missionaries was to cultivate ******* like you to parrot their malicious ideology."