Earlier this week, the news of the DMK government demolishing a Shiva temple in Sriperumbudur, because it was built on government land was shared across news platforms.
Officials and police officers led by the Kanchipuram District Revenue officer, Paneer Selvam, went to a village called Killai in the Sriperumbudur Taluk of the Kanchipuram district and ordered the demolition of the Sivan Temple and the canteen that was allegedly situated on a government land.
Many questioned the double standards of the government asking if government can encroach on temple land what is wrong if it is vice-versa?
திருஞான சம்பந்தர் தபோவனம் – ஸ்ரீபெரும்புதூர் அருகில் உள்ள அழகிய கோவில்
@Sevakofmata & @RamananPr of @FreeTemples அங்கு சென்றடைந்தபோது மதியம் 1 மணியளவில் முழுமையாக இடிக்கப்பட்டது. சுற்றிலும் இடித்த குப்பைகள், ஒரு நாள் முன்பு அழகான சிலைகள். 63 நாயன்மார்கள், துர்க்கை அம்மன், pic.twitter.com/8Pw3OOo2dI— Sevak Sathya (@Sevakofmata) November 26, 2021
However a few weeks ago, a video of a young girl, addressing the Chief Minister about the water-logging in Kilkattalai, was being shared all over social media. The girl said in Tamil, “You’re currently looking at the Kilkattalai surplus water canal. The canal which is so wide here, is very narrow near the church there,” pointing at a distance. She then added, “The Church has encroached almost 30ft of the canal’s space. Back in 2017 itself, IAS Officer Amudha marked this Church. It has been 4 years and yet the Church has not been brought down. Due to this reason, the Canal gets filled up and the Sunnambu Kollathur area gets flooded. Please save us atleast now, by bringing down the church.”
The point to be noted here is that the temple in Sriperumbudur was brought down over night on realised that it has encroached government land. However, this Church, that has been marked 4 years back by IAS officer Amudha, has still not been demolished by the government. Check out the tweet here:
மழை தந்த பாடம். இந்த வீடியோ மாதிரி எனக்கு இன்உ 26 வீடியோக்கள் வந்தது. இளைய தலைமுறை ஓட்டுக்கு இனி பணம் வாங்க மாட்டார்கள். அரசியல்வாதிகளை அடையாளம் கண்ட வாக்காளர்கள் அவதிபடுகின்றனர் 50 வருட இரண்டு திராவிட தலைமைகளுக்கு பாடம். That is why @annamalai_k is liked by aspirational youth. pic.twitter.com/1q7360Yt1G
— R. RAJAGOPALAN (@RAJAGOPALAN1951) November 11, 2021
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