Surendar Natarajan alias ‘Naathigan’ of Karuppar Koottam YouTube channel who was arrested for putting abusive and vulgar videos of Hindu Gods has been released from jail following the DMK’s rise to power.
Naathigan was in jail for 8 months for abusing Hindu Gods and hurting religious sentiments after one of his videos in which he derogated the devotional hymn ‘Kandha Sashti Kavasam’ sung in praise of Lord Murugan, earned the wrath of Tamil people across the world as Lord Murugan is considered as Tamil God.
Karuppar Koottam was a YouTube channel run by a group of ‘Periyarists’, Communist ideologues and DMK sympathizers. They had indulged in targeted attacks against Hindus posting videos abusing Hindu Gods, Hindus and Brahmins for a long time under the garb of ‘rationalism’.
In an interview to a YouTube channel, Naathigan justified his abuses against Lord Murugan and added that he will continue to speak against Hindu puranas and Gods through his new YouTube channel.
He said that he does not think what he said about Kandha Sashti Kavasam was wrong and added that the BJP and AIADMK was the reason behind his arrest. He said that those against the DMK in order to not let that party come to power associated him with the DMK.
It is alleged that Karuppar Koottam enjoyed (may be still enjoying) the patronage of DMK. Evidences which emerged during the controversy clearly established the close relationship shared by Karuppar Koottam and the DMK. Naathigan had in fact campaigned for the DMK in the last General Elections in 2019.
Senthilvasan, another member of the Karuppar Kootam had gone on a luncheon with the then DMK IT wing head and now Tamil Nadu Finance Minister PTR Palanivel Thiagarajan.
Naathigan in the interview, once again made the derogatory comment on Kandha Sashti Kavasam and Lord Murugan during the interview trying to justify what he had said in his video.
Naathigan also said in the interview that his tirade and abuses against Hindu Gods and Hinduism will continue as he claimed that the religion does not allow him to become a Sankaracharya and considers shudras as children of prostitutes.
He said that just learning a little about Hinduism has turned him against Hinduism. When asked why he did not speak against Islam or Christianity, he claimed that their principle is not atheism but against Hindu religion only as the other religion professes equality and lets other caste people become priests.
He also claimed that he was part of RSS since a teenager and was supposedly a religious fanatic adding that he had left the outfit in his later years as he found them ‘anti-rational’ and against other religions like Islam and Christianity.
It is to be noted that RSS has a separate Muslim wing called Rashtriya Muslim Manch that works towards social harmony and bringing Muslims under the nationalist fold.
He also heaped praises on the MK Stalin-led DMK government’s various initiatives like ‘All castes can become archakars’ scheme. He mentioned that while he understood the DMK distancing from him during the controversy as they had go to people and win elections, he was disheartened by Dravida Kazhagam washing him off.
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