Chennai: Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister and DMK Youth wing leader Udhayanidhi Stalin defended his recent remarks on Sanatana dharma and said reiterated his stand that he would bface the issue legally.
Talking to reporters on Monday evening after meeting DMK’s alliance party leader VCK Chief and Lok Sabha MP Thol Thirumavalan to seek his support for DMK’s signature campaign against NEET, Mr Udhayanidhi, who is also the son of Chief Minister and DMK President M.K.Stalin, stuck to his stand on Sanatana dharma row that triggered protests from across the country, especially by the BJP, and said he would not change it.
Justifying his remarks, he said he could lost his post as MLA, Minister or even as the DMK Youth Wing leader, but asserted that he would not change his stand on the issue, referring to a Madras High Court Judge, while passing an order in a case, having observed that the police should have registered cases against Mr.Udhayanidhi and Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department Minister P.K.Sekarbabu for participating in a conference seeking the “eradication” of ‘Sanatana Dharma’.
When asked for his comments on the remarks of the High Court Judge, Mr Udhayanidhi said he had not said anything wrong and that he would never change his opinion.
“I have not said anything that Dr. B.R.Ambedkar (the architect of the Indian Constitution), Periyar (social reformer E.V. Ramasamy) and even…Annan Thirumavalavan have said in the past”, he said.
” I will face it legally. I may lose my post as Minister or MLA tomorrow, but what is more important to me is being human,” he said, adding, while social issues related to ‘Sanatana Dharma’ were hundreds of years old, “We will oppose ‘Sanatana Dharma’”.
