‘Hitler characterised Jews and Udhayanidhi Stalin…’: BJP amid ‘Sanatana Dharma' remark row

NewsBharati    05-Sep-2023 12:48:27 PM
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The row over Udhayanidhi Stalin’s “Sanatana Dharma” remarks has further intensified on Tuesday, as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) compared the Tamil Nadu minister with German dictator Adolf Hitler.
 
The BJP, in a veiled swipe at the son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, said that the leader's remark is "unadulterated hate speech" and alleged that his comment was a call for 'genocide' of 80 per cent of the country that follows Sanatana Dharma.
 
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Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin speaks to the media on his statement on Sanatana Dharma, on Sunday.
 
“There is an eerie similarity between how Hitlercharacterised the Jews and Udhayanidhi Stalin described Sanatan Dharma. Like Hitler, Stalin Jr also demanded that Sanatan Dharma be eradicated…We know how Nazi hate culminated in Holocaust, killing approximately six million European Jews and at least another 5 million Soviet prisoners of war and other victims,” the BJPshared a post on X (formerly Twitter).
 
 
 
The party alleged Udhayanidhi’s remarks were “unadulterated hate speech and a call for genocide of 80% population of India, who follow Sanatan Dharma".
 
Further, hitting out at the newly formed opposition bloc, the party said that Congress and INDIA coalition support for ‘Stalin’s bile is most disconcerting’.
 
“Uday Stalin’s meditated comment is unadulterated hate speech and a call for genocide of 80% population of Bharat, who follow Sanatan Dharma. Congress and I.N.D.I. Alliance support for Stalin’s bile is most disconcerting,” the BJP added in its post.
 
Udhayanidhi Stalin, earlier on September 2 called for the 'eradication’ of the Sanatan Dharma and equated it with diseases like dengue and malaria, inviting sharp criticism from BJP leaders.
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