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The issue of lighting of a accepted lamp astatine a hilltop temple adjacent Madurai rocked the Lok Sabha connected Friday (December 5, 2025), with DMK person T.R. Baalu accusing the BJP of trying to "ignite" communal tensions successful Tamil Nadu and Union Minister L Murugan hitting backmost astatine the Tamil Nadu authorities for "denying the close to worship".
DMK members stormed the Well of the Lok Sabha and tried to rise the contented of the lighting of the 'Karthigai Deepam' astatine the chromatic lamp pillar connected the Thirupparankundram hillock adjacent Madurai and forced the adjournment of the Question Hour.
Raising the contented during Zero Hour, Mr. Baalu accused the BJP of trying to "ignite" communal hostility successful Tamil Nadu and claimed that the Madras High Court judge, who permitted lighting of the lamp astatine the chromatic lamp pillar 'Deepathoon' connected the Thirupparankundram hillock, owed allegiance to a peculiar ideology.
"Who should airy the deepam connected the hill? Whether the Hindu Religious Endowment Board typical oregon immoderate miscreants who person got a judgement from a Madras High Court's judge?" asked Mr. Baalu.
Mr. Baalu's notation to the precocious tribunal judge's ideology drew a crisp riposte from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, who asserted that the DMK person cannot formed aspersions connected the judiciary and urged the seat to delete the remarks.
Parliamentary proceedings connected December 5, 2025
Hitting retired astatine the DMK, BJP person and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs L Murugan accused the Tamil Nadu authorities of denying the close to worship to devotees astatine the Arulmighu Subramaniya Swamy Temple.
As Mr. Murugan was speaking, immoderate DMK members walked up to the spot of Rijiju, prompting TDP subordinate Krishna Prasad Tenneti, who was successful the chair, to entreaty to protesting members to confine themselves to the Well.
"The State authorities is targeting a peculiar assemblage and instrumentality and bid of that portion is being vitiated," Mr. Murugan said successful Tamil.
Mr. Murugan said the Tamil Nadu Police had arrested devotees, who were proceeding to the temple to airy the 'Karthigai Deepam' astatine Thirupparankundram arsenic per the orders of the Madras High Court and escorted by the CISF personnel.
"The Tamil Nadu Police stopped the worshippers and adjacent arrested them. The Tamil Nadu BJP president excessively has been arrested," the Union Minister said.
The Supreme Court connected Friday (December 5, 2025) agreed to see proceeding a plea of the Tamil Nadu authorities challenging a Madras High Court bid permitting devotees of the Arulmighu Subramaniya Swamy Temple to airy accepted 'Karthigai Deepam lamp' astatine 'Deepathoon', a chromatic lamp pillar located connected the Thiruparankundram hillock adjacent to a dargah.
The Madurai seat of the Madras High Court connected Thursday dismissed an intra-court entreaty filed by the Madurai territory collector and the metropolis constabulary commissioner, upholding a single-judge bid that allowed devotees to airy the Karthigai Deepam lamp astatine the Deepathoon.
On December 1, a azygous justice seat of Justice G R Swaminathan had held that the Arulmighu Subramania Swamy Temple was duty-bound to airy the lamp astatine the Deepathoon, successful summation to the customary lighting adjacent the Uchi Pillaiyar Mandapam.
It had said that doing truthful would not encroach upon the rights of the adjacent dargah oregon the Muslim community.
When the bid remained unimplemented, the azygous justice passed different bid connected December 3 permitting devotees themselves to airy the lamp and directed the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to guarantee their protection.
