BJP’s bid to politicise temple issue will not succeed: Stalin
If the BJP tried to politicise a temple issue to strengthen the party, it would not succeed, Chief Minister M K Stalin said on Tuesday in the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
Stalin, speaking on an issue raised by BJP MLA Vanathi Srinivasan, told her to concentrate more on issues that affected the poor people. He asked her to urge her party-led Central government to rein in spiralling petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices that affected the ordinary people.
Also, the Chief Minister said she should support the state’s efforts towards getting funds due to Tamil Nadu from the Centre.
If her party tried to unnecessarily ‘thrust politics’ on the matter, which is before a court, it would never succeed, the Chief Minister asserted after Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Minister P K Sekar Babu spoke on the matter.
Earlier, when Vanathi Srinivasan raised an issue related to takeover of ‘Ayodhya Mandapam’ temple here (on April 11) by the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, some remarks she made were expunged by Speaker M Appavu.