Fearing BJP’s rise in Tamil Nadu, atheist Stalin goes for Hindutva

The rising wave of nationalism throughout the nation has pressured the staunchest of anti-Hindu leaders of DMK to chart a course correction route. DMK President M Okay Stalin, an atheist identified for his anti-Hindu credentials, final week held Lord Muruga’s spear-like weapon ‘Vel’ and posed for shutterbugs at a makkal grama sabha assembly at Tiruttani. As quickly because the pretentious images of Stalin with the Vel went viral on social media platforms, each BJP and the ruling AIADMK jumped into the frenzy to name out Stalin for his bogus devotion to Lord Murugan.BJP State President L. Murugan mentioned Stalin was pressured to carry the ‘Vel’  solely due to the “success” of the BJP’s ‘Vetrivel Yatra’.“Mr. Stalin would speak against Hindus at some occasions, and would later say the party stands with the Hindu community. What is the need for these double standards? Everyone is aware that it is being done for votes,” mentioned Murugan who additional added “The people are aware and they are not ready to believe you [DMK].”Chief Minister Palaniswami additionally focused Stalin and referred to as it a PR train orchestrated by ‘one-hit-wonderboy’ Prashant Kishor, who’s the ballot strategist for Stalin and DMK for the upcoming meeting elections.“Today you all would have seen a person holding a ‘Vel’ in his hand. He is Stalin. He has started acting now, while the story, dialogue and direction is by Prashant Kishor (DMK’s poll strategist for the assembly election). God will bless only those who offer true bhakti and not those who act. If you act, keeping votes in mind, then even God will act in a way so as to defeat you and he will only support the AIADMK,” Palaniswami mentioned.Before 2014, BJP by no means actually seemed in the direction of the southern states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu which had been dominated by Communist and Dravidian political events. However, since 2016, the saffron social gathering has began actively engaged on the bottom to shake the foundations of the established events.In the 2016 meeting election, the social gathering carried out higher than anticipated in each the states and bagged 2.86 per cent and 10.6 per cent votes in Tamil Nadu and Kerala respectively. In the 2021 basic election, the social gathering is making efforts to make main inroads in each the states, with Tamil Nadu- the place there’s a energy vacuum after the loss of life of Jayalalitha- being a serious focus.Read extra: BJP’s latest electoral successes have made it stronger in Tamil Nadu and the goal is Dravidian politicsGiven the truth that 87.6 % of Tamil Nadu’s inhabitants is Hindu and the vast majority of them are terribly Dharmic — there’s a huge floor for Hindutva politics within the state.Fearing a phoenix-like uprise of BJP within the state, which definitely can’t be dominated out at this level, Stalin has resorted to pandering and wooing the Hindu populace by posing for some well-staged footage. In the previous, the likes of Congress have tried to play the Hindutva card by proclaiming the social gathering prince Rahul Gandhi as a ‘janeu dhaari’ man, solely to see the technique backfire spectacularly.DMK in previous has been extraordinarily abusive of Shree Ram. DMK chief Karunanidhi had as soon as shamelessly mentioned that Shree Ram was a drunkard and that Ramayan was a lie. DMK, like Congress, had additionally supported the destruction of Ram Setu citing there was no historic proof to show the existence of Shree Ram.After the historic Ram Mandir Janmabhoomi occasion occurred final yr, DMK was upset with its ally Congress for supporting the occasion as Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Kamal Nath and several other different social gathering leaders brazenly flaunted their assist for the temple’s development.Thus it’s a bit troublesome for observers like us to gulp down Stalin’s gentle reboot in the direction of Hindutva. The track-record doesn’t incite any confidence and if Stalin needs himself to be taken critically by the general public, then he ought to brazenly come out in assist of Ram Mandir. Merely holding the ‘Vel’ isn’t going to assist his or his social gathering’s fortunes.