Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday continued his attacks on the Congress and the Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), saying that members of the bloc wanted to “eradicate” Sanatan Dharma, in a reference to the controversial remarks made by Tamil Nadu Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin in September.
At a public rally in Mauganj, Mr. Chouhan said that a “nervous Congress” was now forming alliances with different parties as it knew it could not defeat the BJP. “They formed the INDIA alliance and the people of this alliance are saying that Sanatan Dharma is malaria and dengue and we will have to eradicate it,” the BJP leader said, asking the crowd if the religion could be eradicated.
In September, Mr. Udhayanidhi, son of Tamil Nadu CM and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M. K. Stalin, had said while addressing a conference of progressive writers in Chennai, that Sanatan Dharma was like “dengue and malaria” and “needed to be eradicated”. “Such things should not be opposed, but destroyed,” he had said.
