CHENNAI: With the ‘deepam’ row heating up,
DMK netas accused BJP of attempting to stir communal unrest in TN, prompting BJP state chief Nainar Nagenthran to retort that there was nothing wrong in Tirupparankundram (Madurai) becoming like Ayodhya.
After paying respects to BR Ambedkar on his death anniversary in Chennai Saturday, Nainar told reporters, “Ayodhya is in India, not in England or Europe. There is nothing wrong in Tirupparankundram becoming Ayodhya. We have heard the greatness of Ram Rajya and want to implement it here.” He was responding to DMK’s allegations that BJP was trying to use the deepam issue to create an Ayodhya-like situation in Tirupparankundram.
Asked about the communal tension rising in Tirupparankundram due to BJP and some Hindu groups trying to light the Karthigai Deepam at a stone pillar near a dargah atop the hill, Nainar said “there is no chance of communal riots, because none of the Muslims have said a word against it.”
DMK MP Kanimozhi responded to Nainar, saying, “Should TN change like Ayodhya? Like Ayodhya in Faizabad constituency, where the people made BJP suffer a crushing defeat in the last election?” Countering her, former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said there was communal harmony in BJP-governed states, and hence people continued to vote for the party.
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