“I’ve Not Said Loose Words, Attack On Hindus In TN Happens In Layers”: Union Fin Min Nirmala Sitharaman Says About Her “DMK Is An Anti-Hindu Party” Remark

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was at the thick of the action when the DMK-led Tamil Nadu State government’s Police department denied permission to devotees to livestream the Pran Prathishta ceremony proceedings. Among various topics she spoke about in an interview recently with News18 network’s Rahul Joshi, she also touched upon her stand against the DMK in Tamil Nadu.

The interviewer asked, “You’ve said that Stalin’s DMK is an anti-Hindu party and that they were forbidding the live telecast of the Ram Mandir Pran Prathishta ceremony. What do you have to say to that?”

Nirmala Sitharaman replied, “100%, I’ve not said loose words. I did mean what I said and I do truly believe that repeatedly the attack on Hindus in Tamil Nadu in layers which are seen and in layers which are not seen, have been felt for a long time. I speak very many times about Tamil Nadu with lived experience and therefore I don’t talk too soon nor do I speak too indiscreetly. So when I say something, I mean it because I feel it also. I do corroborate with data, with actual ground activities, and then only comment. Unfortunately, if that is the politics of state party, which has had a lot of ideological support extended to separatist politicians of years gone by, whether they support it even today, I do not know but there are periodic voices which come out which are very separatist in tone and tenor.”

She further added, “My grief is that a national party like the Congress party has been decimated in Tamil Nadu, and till today, they are not in a position to win an election, a couple of seats on their own without being in an alliance with one of these parties. BJP is of course a beginner there. It’s been there since the Jan Sangh days and it’s gaining strength, we will continue to work with the people. But the grief that I want to express is, that a national party like Congress party, also joins that anti-Hindu voice, does not condemn the anti-Hindu voice of the party DMK, and even worse, goes in support of such voices which come from DMK and today not just in Tamil Nadu.”

She further said, “A Congress party member in the Lok Sabha today, meaning he is a sitting Lok Sabha member, and the brother of a deputy Chief Minister in Karnataka also speaks in separatist voice. So, anti-Hindu is one, and to Hindu activity is another, which also is happening in Karnataka incidentally, the Congress party in Tamil Nadu, supports this kind of anti-Hindu or separatist voices, and today that is a spirit with which the Congress also is aligning which is what I find utterly shocking.”

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