Sanatan Dharma row: BJP seeks Udhayanidhi's apology, writes to Tamil Nadu CM
The BJP's Delhi unit has also asked leaders of the INDIA alliance constituents, including AAP, to make their stand clear on the issue
Seeking an apology from Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin for his comments against Sanatan Dharma, BJP leaders in Delhi submitted a protest letter to the state’s resident commissioner on Monday (September 4).
A delegation from the BJP’s Delhi unit, including its president Virendra Sachdeva, MPs Harsh Vardhan and Parvesh Verma, visited the Tamil Nadu House to submit the protest letter addressed to Chief Minister MK Stalin.
Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin has courted a controversy after claiming that Sanatan Dharma is against equality and social justice and that it should be eradicated. Son of the Tamil Nadu chief minister, Udhayanidhi also likened Sanatan Dharma to the Coronavirus and said such things should not be opposed but destroyed.
Leaders of the INDIA alliance constituents, including the AAP and its chief Arvind Kejriwal, should also clear their stand on his remarks, Sachdeva said.
With his statement, Udhyanidhi Stalin tried to do what even foreign invaders failed to do in hundreds of years, Sachdeva said, adding that he delivered a “hate speech against 100 crore Sanatan Dharmi Indians”. “We have submitted this letter to the Tamil Nadu chief minister, asking for an immediate apology from his minister son for his immoral statement, which violates Constitutional propriety too,” Sachdeva said.
“The Tamil Nadu chief minister is a close political ally of AAP chief Kejriwal and his silence on the issue is pinching. He should come forward and condemn Udhyanidhi’s call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma,” he added.
(With agency inputs)
