TN Deepam dispute heats up: DMK targets BJP; Nainar counters with ‘Ayodhya’ remark

CHENNAI: With the ‘deepam’ enactment heating up, DMK netas accused BJP of attempting to disturbance communal unrest successful TN, prompting BJP authorities main Nainar Nagenthran to retort that determination was thing incorrect successful Tirupparankundram (Madurai) becoming similar Ayodhya.After paying respects to BR Ambedkar connected his decease day successful Chennai Saturday, Nainar told reporters, “Ayodhya is successful India, not successful England oregon Europe. There is thing incorrect successful Tirupparankundram becoming Ayodhya. We person heard the greatness of Ram Rajya and privation to instrumentality it here.” He was responding to DMK’s allegations that BJP was trying to usage the deepam contented to make an Ayodhya-like concern successful Tirupparankundram.Asked astir the communal hostility rising successful Tirupparankundram owed to BJP and immoderate Hindu groups trying to airy the Karthigai Deepam astatine a chromatic pillar adjacent a dargah atop the hill, Nainar said “there is nary accidental of communal riots, due to the fact that nary of the Muslims person said a connection against it.”DMK MP

Kanimozhi

responded to Nainar, saying, “Should TN alteration similar Ayodhya? Like Ayodhya successful Faizabad constituency, wherever the radical made BJP endure a crushing decision successful the past election?” Countering her, erstwhile Telangana politician Tamilisai Soundararajan said determination was communal harmony successful BJP-governed states, and hence radical continued to ballot for the party.