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“I don’t know Ram, we don’t see any Ram Temples In TN”: Congress MP Jothimani

Congress MP from Tamil Nadu Jothimani, has courted controversy saying that she does not know Lord Ram and that there are no temples for Lord Ram in Tamil Nadu.

The Lok Sabha MP from Karur said “I’m from Tamil Nadu. I don’t know Ram. Because we are indigenous people. We follow ‘ancestral worship’. You ask anybody in Tamil Nadu. We don’t see any Ram Temple.”

“Every week I go to my temple. Because my clan used to go that temple. Basically, it is an ‘ancestor worship’. There are many south Indian states, even north-east tribals, SCs, Dalits, OBCs, we pray indigenous worship, basically an ancestral worship. So, that’s what we’re trying to say.”, she further added.

Jothimani also hinted that she never knew about Ram before coming to national politics but contradicted the same statement saying “I read Ramayana, I read Mahabharatha, that’s how I know”.

“When it comes to worship, we strictly worship our ancestors”, she said.

Netizens are now lashing out at the Congress MP with many pointing out the ubiquitousness of ‘Ram’ existing as Ram Temples, in names and so on.

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