Even before the dust could settle on his earlier unpleasant remarks on Hindus, DMK MP A. Raja has added more fuel to the fire unleashing a tirade against Hindus and the Tamil Brahmin community in particular.
Speaking at the ‘Mupperum Vizha’ of the DMK, the scam-tainted former Union Minister sought to divide Hindus by villainizing Tamil Brahmins and pitting other Hindu communities against them.
Throughout his speech, Raja singled out and targeted the Tamil Brahmin community saying that they are ‘Sanatana Hindus’ while other Hindu communities like Gounders, Vanniyars, Thevars, Chettiars, Nadars are ‘Saamaniya (ordinary) Hindus’.
Taking a jibe at Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Minister Sekarbabu, DMK MP A. Raja said “…Sekarbabu, wears that (saffron) veshti, smears sacred ash on the forehead and then raises slogans like ‘Long live Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin, long live Kalaignar, long live Anna, Periyar is our base’, won’t it be like a thunder to them (referring to Tamil Hindus)? It is to give that thunder this Mupperum Vizha is organized”.
Narrating about the incident surrounding the passage of Hindu Code Bill, the DMK MP took to slandering conservative Hindus of Nehru cabinet addressing them in singular saying “those Hindus who opposed the bill were full and full those sacred thread wearing (Brahmins) Hindus.”
Citing Agnihotram Ramanuja Thathacharya’s Hindu Matham Enge Pogiradhu, he went on to peddle that the Brahmins in the Agraharams were raging about the Hindu Code Bill as they considered giving property rights might cause women to lose their character.
“Gounder isn’t angry, Chettiar isn’t angry, Naidu isn’t angry, Nadar isn’t angry, Vanniyar isn’t angry. Who is angry? Avaal (Brahmins)”, the DMK MP said. Avaa/Avaal is a Dravidian Stockist term used to stereotype and slander Tamil Brahmin community.
He claimed that while science and ‘Dravidian Movement’ has broken caste-based professions, the last vestiges of Brahminical forces still remains in temples.
In an attempt to further demonize Tamil Brahmin community, he said that members of the community usurped lands of Mukkulathors (Thevars), Paraiyars, Pallars, during Chola times as Chaturvedimangalam villages and went on to imply that Tamil Brahmin community people are ‘freeloaders’.
Peddling the Aryan invasion myth, the DMK MP said “Getting everything for free and squatting here coming from distant lands ruling in the name of religion, today you are saying there should be no freebies”.
“You call us enemies of Hindus. I am not able to understand. For the past 100 years in Tamil Nadu, you Brahmins, if any good has happened to Hindus, if not for us – the Dravidian Movement, tell me who else is the reason for it!”, the DMK MP shouted antagonizing the Brahmin community.
“In 1951, when reservation for the backward classes was brought, not for the depressed classes who were given reservation by the British… when reservation for Mukkalthors, Nadars, Vanniyars, Chettiyars, Kongu Vellala Gounders, Naatu Gounders, Mudaliars, was brought who stopped it? They are all Hindus right?”, the DMK MP said.
The DMK MP resorted to demagoguery saying “When demand for reservation was made for these 50% Hindus, who are those 2 Brahmins who went to court to deny it? They are also Hindu right?”
Driving a wedge in the Hindu community by pitting other communities against Tamil Brahmins, the DMK MP said “The 3% Hindus who are going against 50% Hindus, who are those 3% Hindus? Those who put case that 50% Hindus should not study, or go to college, or get employment, are they Muslims or Christians? It was the Hindu who put case right? So, there comes 2 Hindus isn’t it? Working class Hindus are on one side, the other side is the Hindus who eat without working. They are ‘Sanatana Hindus’. The other working Hindus are ‘Samaniya Hindus’ (ordinary Hindus).”
“We are now changing our slogan. We are Hindus only. But you are a different Hindu, I am a different Hindu. Those Hindus who don’t speak of equality are Sanatana Hindus. The Hindus who say ‘everybody is equal, everybody should study, everything should be given for everyone’ heading towards Bharathidasan’s dreams! To these Hindus for whom the leaders are Thanthai Periyar, Anna, Kalaignar, MK Stalin. They aren’t leaders for you (Sanatana Hindus). For you, the leader is ‘Sankarachari’. Keep it. Who bothers!”, he said.
“From now on let’s peddle that there are two Hindus. Sekarbabu, you don’t have a problem right? So from today, Sanatana Hindu (referring to Tamil Brahmins) is our enemy. The cursed ordinary Hindu – who was oppressed by caste, who lived as an oppressed and depressed without out education and literacy, the one who was made a slave for hundreds of years, the one who was protected by Periyar, Anna, Kalaignar, Dravidian Movement – to these cursed ordinary Hindu, we are everything. Yes, we are Hindus not in your sense.”, the DMK MP exclaimed.
He also said that there are many who are confusing people saying Hindus have changed since the coming of Constitution. “So, you mean to say you were not wearing poonool (sacred thread) before Constitution and wearing only now? What have you changed? To whom are you bluffing?”, the DMK MP said.
“They’re threatening to put a case on me saying that I’ve made defamatory remarks. I am waiting for that day. Come, put a case on me. By reading your Manusmriti and Bhagwad Gita, if I don’t expose you by peeling your skin, I am not Kalaignar’s son.”, the DMK MP challenged implying that he will quote verses from Bhagwad Gita in court to justify his stance.
Earlier while speaking at an event organized by Dravida Kazhagam, the scam-tainted MP said “You’re a Shudra till you remain a Hindu. You’re a son of the prostitute till you remain a Shudra. You’re a Panchaman (Dalit) till you remain a Hindu. You’re an untouchable till you remain a Hindu. How many of you wish to stay as children of prostitutes? How many of you wish to remain untouchable? Only if we’re vocal about these questions, it will become elemental in breaking Santhana (Sanatana Dharma).”
After his speech snow-balled into a controversy with local Hindus in his constituency Nilgiris and adjacent regions downing the shutters of their businesses as a mark of protest, the DMK MP resorted to defending his stance at another even by quoting EV Ramasamy Naicker.
DMK MP A Raja quotes Periyaar EV Ramasamy as his backup for calling Hindu Shudras as Prostitute’s son.
Ask more; they will say Periyaar EV Ramasamy quoted Caldwell. Nothing beyond that. Spreading Hindu hatred is in DMK’s DNA pic.twitter.com/uXKDKhBNvM
— Krishna Kumar Murugan (@ikkmurugan) September 20, 2022
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