Annamalai lashes out at Udhayanidhi for Sanatana Dharma remark


Tearing into DMK leader and minister Udhayanidhi Stalin over his remark equating Sanatan Dharma with “mosquitoes, dengue, malaria and corona”, the BJP’s Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai accused him of peddling a “bought-out idea from Christian missionaries”. Addressing a conference in Chennai on Saturday, the minister for Sports and Youth Affairs in the Tamil Nadu government railed against Sanatan Dharma, saying, “Few things cannot be opposed, they should only be abolished. We can’t oppose Dengue, mosquitoes, Malaria, or Corona, we have to eradicate them. In the same way, we have to eradicate Sanatana (Sanatan Dharma). Rather than merely opposing Sanatana, it should be eradicated.” In a scathing retort to the DMK leader over his remarks, Annamalai took to his official handle on X to post, “The only resolve that the Gopalapuram Family has is to accumulate wealth beyond the State GDP. Thiru @Udhaystalin, you, your father, or his or your idealogue have a bought-out idea from Christian missionaries & the idea of those missionaries was to cultivate ******* like you to parrot their malicious ideology.” Taking a further swipe at Udhayanidhi, the BJP state chief posted, “Tamil Nadu is a land of spiritualism. The best you can do is to hold a Mic in an event like this & rant out your frustration!”