Will Udhayanidhi challenge ‘Tholkappiyam’ before eradicating Sanatana Dharma? (My article in Organiser)

Will Udhayanidhi challenge ‘Tholkappiyam’ before eradicating Sanatana Dharma?

Jayasree Saranathan Sep 17, 2023, 07:00 pm IST in Bharat, Opinion, Tamil Nadu......

Those who regularly follow the Dravidian politics of the DMK will never be surprised to hear Udhayanidhi Stalin, the prince in waiting, making a clarion call to abolish Sanatana Dharma like dengue, malaria, and corona. It is the annual ritual for this party to conduct this kind of ‘Eradication’ conference right from the days E.V. Ramasamy Naickar. Taking cue from the Divide and Rule policy of the British, the DK party of those days kept harping on inventing an enemy by infusing a fear complex in the common man. That enemy was Brahmin and Hinduism was the target to be demolished.

EVR went to the extent of calling for the ‘annihilation of Gandhi’ and ‘annihilation of congress’ along with Brahmins and threatened to burn his photos and statues for supporting Sanatana Dharma. In 1957, the Caste Eradication Conference was held by him where he and his followers burnt the Indian Constitution and declared the Constitution Day of 26^th November as “Genocide Day”, inciting cadres to murder 1000 Brahmins and burn Agraharam-s to ‘eradicate caste’.

Disturbed by this development, Nehru wrote to Kamaraj, the then Chief Minister of Madras, to take necessary steps to check this tendency, but nothing happened. In the next year around the same time, Nehru shot another letter to Kamaraj expressing that EVR must be put in a mental asylum and given treatment. Had Kamaraj taken stringent steps to check EVR then, the Periyarist cult would not have evolved and a Udhayanidhi could not have stoked a controversy now.

The Dravidian parties have had a free run all these decades, growing leaps and bounds in polluting the minds of people with anti-Aryan, anti- Manu, anti- Brahmin, and anti-Hindu ideas. In his long innings in politics Karunanidhi exploited the non-existent Aryan invasion theory to such an extent that in a veiled dig at the Allahabad court ruling on Ram Janma Bhumi, he wondered how a court could accurately pinpoint the birthplace of Ram who lived 17.28 lakh years ago and lamented that Aryan culture.... continue to READ HERE