After Amit Shah, Sitharaman takes aim at India in the controversy surrounding Sanatan Dharma, saying, “Congress too…”

Nirmala Sitharaman posted an old video of KS Alagiri, the chief of the Tamil Nadu Congress, preaching about Sanatan Dharma. She captioned the video, “India is against Hindus.”

While the Congress party tried to keep its distance from the controversy surrounding Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s remark on Sanatan Dharma, Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman released an old video of Tamil Nadu Congress chief KS Alagiri saying that the goal of the alliance in the state is to destroy Sanatan Dharma and the BJP. Alagiri said that the alliance was formed with the intention of destroying both of these organisations. This comes at a time when the Sanatan Dharma debate has developed into a big controversy, with the opposition alliance INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) coming under fire for the statement made by the DMK leader.

The Union Home Minister Amit Shah was the one who initiated the attack on INDIA by saying, “These people have talked about Sanatan Dharma for the purpose of vote bank appeasement.” They have brought dishonour upon (the Sanatan Dharma).” Nirmala Sitharaman brought up the fact that PK Sekar Babu, the minister for Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments in the state of Tamil Nadu, was there when Udhayanidhi Stalin made the comment about abolishing Sanatan Dharma, but he did not object to it. She stated that this was significant.

Udhayanidhi Stalin, a former actor who has now transitioned into politics and is the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, has stated that he will not retract his statements despite the fact that they have stoked a significant political storm.

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According to Udhayanidhi, Sanatan classifies persons according to their caste. In the same vein as malaria and dengue fever, Sanatan should be eradicated rather than merely resisted.
According to Karti Chidambaram, a leader of the Congress party, what Udhayanidhi said was perfectly acceptable because the word “Sanatan” in everyday Tamil implies “caste hierarchical society.” “What Udhayanidhi meant was that caste hierarchical society needs to be eliminated.

It has no other deeper philosophical meaning, as other people seem to attribute towards it,” Karti Chidambaram stated that Sanatan Dharma has always referred to a caste-based hierarchical system. He went on to say that Udhayanidhi’s speech did not include any insinuations of genocide. Amit Malviya, a member of the BJP, made the statement that removing Sanatan constitutes a demand to exterminate 80 percent of the country’s people, which is where the accusation of a “call to genocide” sprang from.

According to the leader of the Tamil Nadu Congress party, Lakshmi Ramachandran, the term “Sanatan” in Tamil Nadu refers to Hindutva, which is the “greatest threat” to Hindus and Hinduism. “Hindutva has divided our society, has othered the minorities, and has used my religion politically to spread hatred,” Lakshmi Ramachandran said. “Hindutva has used my religion to spread hatred.”