The Shiv Sena on Wednesday hit out at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin for felicitating A. G. Perarivalan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination who was released recently. Its MP Sanjay Raut rebuked Mr. Stalin for ‘dignifying’ the late Prime Minister’s assassin and remarked that it set “a dangerous ideal.”
The Sena, an ally of the Congress in Maharashtra’s tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, lambasted Mr. Stalin who had had warmly greeted Mr. Perarivalan after his release, asking what the Chief Minister was trying to prove by his action.
“Everyone knows Tamil Nadu’s politics and its turns. [Congressman] Rajiv Gandhi was the nation’s leader who sacrificed himself. He was assassinated in Tamil Nadu. If Chief Minister [Stalin] felicitates his assassins, then I do not think it is morally right nor is it part of not our culture,” Mr. Raut said.
