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AAA The Assembly election was a battle between patriots and anti-nationals, BJP State president L. Murugan said at an event organised here on Sunday to pay homage to those who lost lives in the February 14, 1998 serial blasts.
“If the sacrifice of the 58 persons who died and the 200-plus who were injured should not go waste and if Hindu faith had to be protected then the DMK should not be given a chance to rule the State as it was anti-Hindu and anti-Tamil,” he said.
“In short, the election will be a battle between patriots and anti-nationals.”
Be it the 1998 Coimbatore bomb blasts or the killing of Tamils in the Eelam war in Sri Lanka, it was the DMK that was responsible. To make a comeback, the party and its ideological ally Dravidar Kazhagam were engaged in vituperative and false campaign, which they had started even in the run-up to the 2019 Parliamentary election.
Variyar stressed on religious harmony, says Palaniswami After declaring a public holiday on Thai Poosam, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Tuesday announced that the birth anniversary of Lord Murugan’s devotee and spiritual teacher Kirupananda Variyar will be celebrated as a State event.
He made the announcement towards the end of his Assembly election campaign speech at Anna Kalai Arangam in Vellore constituency. “Kirupananda Variyar was born on August 25, 1906 in Kangeyanallur in Vellore. He started giving religious discourses at a very young age,” said the Chief Minister.
Stating that Kirupananda Variyar stressed on religious harmony, Mr. Palaniswami said the money that the former earned through his discourses were spent on social welfare activities, such as providing education, healthcare and organising marriages for members of the economically weaker sections of society.
January 29, 2021
Hindu devotees carry milk pots on their heads as they gather at a shrine in Batu Caves during the 2019 Thaipusam celebrations in Kuala Lumpur.
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The cancellation of a public holiday for a Hindu festival in Malaysia’s Kedah state along with the country’s de facto Religious Affairs Ministry recently signalling that the country’s sharia law penalties could be strengthened – with the country’s LGBT community as one of the main targets –
have unsettled religious minorities and some moderate Muslims who worry the country is moving towards greater conservatism.
The Kedah chief minister’s decision to cancel the one-day public holiday on Thursday to celebrate Thaipusam, purportedly out of coronavirus fears, has come in for heavy criticism by Malaysian opposition MPs and former prime minister Najib Razak .
Veteran artist Long Thien Shih brings to life an epic Thaipusam night scene in his work called Thaipusam, Batu Caves (pastel sketch, paper, 2010), which shows beautifully lit up kavadis and worshippers congregating at the Sri Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Batu Caves. Photo: Long Thien Shih
The Hindu community today will celebrate Thaipusam, a festival that falls on the full moon day of the Tamil month of Thai .
The festival commemorates the day when Lord Murugan received the vel (lance) from his mother Goddess Parvathi to destroy the evil demon Soorapadman to save humanity.
The pandemic situation in the country has forced those celebrating Thaipusam this year to observe it at home on a moderate scale.