Member of Parliament from Thoothukudi and DMK women’s wing secretary Kanimozhi refused to accept the Vel presented by her party cadres during an election campaign in Madurai on Monday.
The DMK women’s wing leader is on a two day visit to Madurai to campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections. She will be inaugurating the statue of late DMK patriarch Karunanidhi at Simmakkal.
While visiting it, Vadakkumasi Veedi, DMK Circle Secretary Balu and Area Secretary Saravanan tried to present a bronze Vel to Kanimozhi.
However, she frowned upon them and refused to accept the Vel. The two DMK cadres later tried to cover up by saying that they had got the ‘Vel’ for the temple in their village and ‘did not present’ the Vel to her. They were quoted saying in a Tamil daily that they carried the Vel in their hands as they had come in an auto rickshaw while coming to attend the Kanimozhi meeting. “Since we can’t leave the Vel in the auto, we carried it along with us. But she thought it was being presented to her”, the DMK office bearer was quoted saying in the report.
Earlier, at a DMK Gram Sabha meeting held in Ammaiyar Kuppam near Tiruttani, the DMK chief was presented with a silver Vel (spear weapon of Lord Murugan) by the party cadres. Reportedly, poojas were done to this silver Vel at the Tiruttani Murugan temple before presenting it to M.K. Stalin.
After the Karuppar Koottam episode, in which the rabid YouTube channel run by ‘Periyarists’ with links to the DMK, abused Hindu God Murugan and Kandha Sashti Kavasam, the DMK has been feeling the heat for its anti-Hindu politics.
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