Chennai : Chief Minister MK Stalin said that DMK never stood against anyone’s religious sentiments.
“Both spiritual and rationalist campaigns can co-exist here,” Stalin said, addressing a gathering in Salem.
“If you are really a spiritual person you should have supported us, instead you are creating communal tensions and doing communal politics.
They [Opposition] are trying to divert the issues. There are few people who are not able to find fault with this government so they have taken spiritualism as a weapon,” he added.
Speaking about the achievements of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department of state government, Stalin said, “I can proudly say that nearly Rs 2,500 crore assets of the temples have been reclaimed only during the DMK government. Temple documents have been digitised.
DMK government ensured that people from all castes could become priests. We have facilitated Tamil hymns to be sung in temples during pooja.”
We have increased funds from one lakh to two lakh for 12,959 temples to conduct a one-time puja. We are going to start 10 arts colleges under the HR and CE department, he added.