At a household marriage ceremony of DMK legislator Sabha Rajendran at Neyveli in Cuddalore district on Sunday, Udhayanidhi hit out at BJP ally AIADMK too, likening the celebration to “a rubbish mound that shelters the snake”. The rubbish too must be cleared, he mentioned. “The snake slithers into our home from the rubbish. If we have to get rid of the snake, we should guarantee there is no such thing as a rubbish. So, folks must be able to take away the BJP and the AIADMK from Tamil Nadu in 2024,” he mentioned. “We despatched the slaves packing within the 2021 meeting election. We ought to ship their masters home within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” he mentioned.
Speaking on the identical occasion through video convention from Delhi, chief minister M Okay Stalin reiterated the DMK’s must win all of the 40 seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry within the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “Only then we will play a key position within the new authorities that might be shaped,” he mentioned
On the Sanatana Dharma controversy, Udhayanidhi mentioned he would proceed to talk in opposition to it in future too. “There have been voices raised in opposition to Sanatana dharma for the previous 100 years in Tamil Nadu. We will proceed to talk for the following 200 years too,” he mentioned.
He mentioned his remarks on Sanatana weren’t new. On a number of events previously, B R Ambedkar, Periyar (DK founder E V Ramasamy) and M Karunanidhi (former DMK patriarch) had spoken about it, mentioned Udhayanidhi. It was due to the strident opposition to Sanatana Dharma that girls had been capable of step out of their homes and social evils like ‘sati’ ended. In truth, the DMK itself was based on the rules that oppose such social evils, he mentioned. “But the BJP had distorted my remarks and unfold one thing which I had by no means mentioned,” he charged.