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Tamil Nadu Minister for Natural Resources S. Regupathy, connected Tuesday (January 6, 2026), said the Tamil Nadu authorities volition similar an entreaty successful the Supreme Court challenging the orders passed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court connected lighting of a lamp astatine a chromatic pillar adjacent a dargah connected the Thirupparankundram hill.
Earlier successful the day, the Division Bench upheld past month’s order of Justice G.R. Swaminathan, directing the Subramaniya Swamy Temple absorption successful Thirupparankundram to airy the Karthigai Deepam astatine the ‘deepathoon’ (stone pillar) atop the hill, too the accustomed places.
Speaking to journalists astatine the Secretariat successful Chennai, Mr. Regupathy termed the bid arsenic “against law.” According to him, the tribunal should person examined whether determination was immoderate humanities precedent for lighting a lamp atop the ‘deepathoon.’ He said determination was nary grounds to amusement that specified a signifier had ever existed, astatine slightest successful the past 100 years.
The Minister claimed initiating specified a signifier done a tribunal bid carried a “hidden agenda.” He repeatedly asserted that the chromatic pillar atop Thirupparankundram elevation was not a ‘deepathoon’ and said the civilization and traditions of the radical of Tamil Nadu should beryllium preserved.
Drawing an analogy, Mr. Regupathy said “If determination was a customary signifier successful villages of cremating bodies lone astatine cremation grounds, they would beryllium cremated lone determination and obscurity else. Similarly, long-standing customs should not beryllium altered.”
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He besides dismissed allegations raised by AIADMK wide caput and Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K. Palaniswami successful a memorandum submitted to Governor R.N. Ravi, regarding alleged scams attributed to Ministers successful the DMK government.
