New Delhi: Amid a row over Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remarks, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering on Tuesday made a scathing assault on the Opposition and mentioned that the Indian Nationwide Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) alliance has been fashioned to “oppose” and “end” the Sanatan Dharma. Addressing a press convention at celebration headquarters within the nationwide capital, senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad accused the Opposition alliance of vote financial institution politics.
“…Their hidden agenda is to do vote financial institution politics by opposing Sanatana Dharma…I ask the Congress celebration and this alliance – Have they got the fitting to criticise deities of another religion? Have they got the braveness? Can they do it?… They keep silent on different religions however brazenly oppose Sanatana,” Prasad mentioned.
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The BJP chief additionally accused the INDIA bloc of getting a hidden agenda to assault Sanatan Dharma and questioned the “silence” of Opposition leaders amid frequent vital remarks by DMK leaders concerning the historic religion.
Firing a contemporary salvo on the Opposition over the problem, Prasad focused the Congress management saying the longer Sonia Gandhi maintains silence over the matter the extra it will likely be clear that opposing Sanatan Dharma is a part of the INDIA bloc’s frequent minimal programme.
Prasad seized on a current remark by a DMK chief that it’s the bloc’s agenda to oppose Sanatan Dharma, and mentioned what the Tamil Nadu chief has mentioned is correct. “The BJP will urge this alliance to come back out with a categorical decision that we utterly disassociate ourselves (from DMK’s criticism) and this isn’t our agenda,” he mentioned at a press convention.
With the DMK linking Sanatan Dharma with the observe of caste discrimination amongst Hindus to justify its criticism, the BJP chief famous that temples devoted to revered individuals from backward castes like Shabir, Kewat and Saint Ravidas have been constructed.
The Sanatan Dharma believes that one no matter his caste and group background can attain God with their devotion, he claimed. The Congress has, in the meantime, maintained that it believes in respecting each religion.
Hitting again, Prasad mentioned whereas Opposition leaders from these within the DMK to some in events just like the Rashtriya Janata Dal and Samajwadi Social gathering have been vocal in criticising Sanatan Dharma and holy books related to Hinduism, can they summon the braveness to criticise different faiths and their holy figures.
India’s tradition and heritage are being insulted day-after-day, he mentioned, asserting that the BJP will attain out to villages throughout the nation over the problem and spoke of Vikas (improvement) and Virasat (heritage).
Why this “shameful denigration” of Sanatan, he mentioned, claiming the nation won’t tolerate insult to it. Prasad additionally spoke of the prominence given to the Konark Chakra and historic Nalanda College in the course of the current G20 Summit assembly hosted by India.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, chairing a gathering of the Council of Ministers, weighed in on the furore round Udhayanidhi’s remarks, and in line with sources requested his ministers to aggressively counter the assault on Sanatan Dharma.
He suggested his ministers to counter the Opposition’s narrative on the Sanatan Dharma with info. Earlier, Trichy police booked BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya for allegedly spreading misinformation and distorting Udhayanidhi’s remarks.
The transfer was seen as a response to Udhayanidhi and Congress chief Priyank Kharge being booked for allegedly “hurting spiritual sentiments”. An FIR was filed on a grievance by two advocates at Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.