Tamil Nadu State BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan on Monday accepted the apology offered by Loyola College in Chennai for having allowed certain exhibits “denigrating Hinduism and Prime Minister Narendra Modi” on its campus during a cultural event on January 19 and 20, and called off a proposed agitation against the institution.
She said the party’s youth wing planned to organise a major protest against the college, but since the college management had apologised, the party had decided to drop the stir plan.
“However, those who were behind such exhibits at the ‘Veethi Virudhu Vizha’ should be identified,” she told journalists.
Hinduism’s symbols and beliefs were constantly being insulted by some under the cloak of secularism, she alleged.
“The exhibition has tarnished Hinduism’s symbols and demeaned women. We will not keep quiet anymore. How did you not find those paintings objectionable? We will not let anyone organise art exhibitions that portray Hinduism and women in bad light. Even Prime Minister Modi and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh were portrayed in an insulting manner. Those who call themselves ‘secular’ are trying to instigate religious riots through these exhibitions,” she said.
Poser to Stalin
She questioned why DMK president M.K. Stalin did not propose Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s name for the Prime Minister’s post at a rally of Opposition parties last week. “Stalin says he had said it [proposed Mr. Gandhi’s name for PM] at the DMK’s event in Chennai. If he was bold enough, he should have nominated Mr. Gandhi as the PM candidate in Kolkata. Nobody is ready to accept him [Rahul Gandhi] as the prime ministerial candidate,” she said.
