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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president M.K. Stalin on Sunday justified his government’s basal connected the Thirupparankundram deepam row saying helium had decided to safeguard the traditions of the elevation temple successful Madurai.
Through a video connection disseminated by the DMK, Mr. Stalin sought to explicate however his government took a basal successful the Thirupparankundram temple issue.
“I decided to safeguard the traditions of the Thirupparankundram temple. I did not bash truthful arsenic a religious leader, but arsenic a Chief Minister. I firmly judge idiosyncratic religion should not bow down to politics,” Mr. Stalin said successful the video clipping.
Rationality was not thing that needed to support warring with faith, Mr. Stalin said and contended: “Both are 2 faces of the aforesaid society. The relationship betwixt Periyar (E.V. Ramasamy) and Adigalar is impervious of that.”
In politics, Mr. Stalin said his extremity was to unite everyone. “We whitethorn person antithetic beliefs, but we unrecorded successful the aforesaid land. We talk the aforesaid language. We locomotion towards the aforesaid future. That is the throbbing pulse of the Dravidian movement.”
He besides reiterated his government’s presumption connected upholding the two-language policy. “The value fixed to Hindi language has not lone belittled different languages, but has destroyed them too,” helium said.
“The BJP authorities not lone seeks to marque Hindi the authoritative connection but besides the connection of authorization successful this country. They ordered america to thatch 3 languages to our children. Impossible! We volition safeguard 2 -- Tamil and English. There is nary alteration connected that front. Our parent lingua is our soul. English is our model to the world. We volition safeguard both,” the Chief Minister said.
Mr. Stalin said, “Fighting the Governor is the archetypal section of each payment strategy we implement,” and underlined, “as acold arsenic the Dravidian exemplary goes, this is simply a non-negotiable price.” Hailing his precocious begetter and erstwhile Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi arsenic a “great personality”, Mr. Stalin said: “I cannot constitute similar him. Neither tin I orate similar him. But what tin I do? I tin enactment similar him. I tin enactment for the people. For now, that is enough.”
Referring to attempts to trial him and his party, Mr. Stalin said: “Our sweat and tears went into constructing this Dravidian model. We volition safeguard it. We volition support Tamil lives and amended them with our schemes. We volition safeguard the Tamil language, which keeps our hearts beating. Not conscionable today, but forever!”
