On Sunday, Home Minister Amit Shah criticized Rahul Gandhi for “comparing Hindu organizations with proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba” and accused the DMK and Congress of discussing the end of “Sanatana Dharma.”
Hitting back at the DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin over his remark that ‘Sanatan Dharma’ should be eradicated and not merely opposed, Shah said, “For the last two days, the INDIA alliance has been insulting ‘Sanatana Dharma’. Leaders of DMK and Congress are talking about ending ‘Sanatana Dharma’ just for vote bank politics. This is not the first time they have insulted our ‘Sanatana Dharma”.
After launching the party’s second Parivartan Yatra, Shah spoke to an audience in the Rajasthan state that is headed for elections. He lashed out at the opposition, recalling how Manmohan Singh, a former prime minister, had also stated that minorities have the first right to the budget, “but we say that the first right is for the poor, tribals, Dalits, and backwards.” “Today, the Congress party claims that Sanatana will rule if Modi ji wins. The Hindu organizations, according to Rahul Gandhi, are more dangerous than Lashkar-e-Taiba. Rahul Gandhi was criticized by the top BJP official for “comparing Hindu organizations with Lashkar-e-Taiba.”
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.”