Tamil Nadu Sports Minister and DMK scion Udhayanidhi Stalin’s comments on sanatana dharma had stoked a huge controversy. The ruling BJP and the Hindutva forces across the country have accused DMK of being “anti-Hindu.”
Tamil Nadu: Shaivite Seer Puts Paid To DMK s Plans To Position Shaivism As Different From Hinduism
by Aravindan Neelakandan - Jan 9, 2021 12:01 PM
Shaivism in Tamil Nadu is as Hindu as Shaivism anywhere else in India.
Snapshot
The DMK plan seemed to be to confuse the Hindu-minded voter in case they couldn t convince her.
This was sought to be achieved by positioning Tamil Shaivism as different from Hinduism.
Of late, in Tamil Nadu, the evangelist-Tamil separatist axis has once again started promoting the false notion that Shaivism is separate and alien to the Vedic family of spiritual traditions and that it ethnically and linguistically belongs to the Tamils.