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The Hindu
6 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Forum asks Madurai district administration not to permit religious meet
Members of Madurai Madha Nallinakka Makkal Kootamaipu, demanding the district administration to stop Hindutva organisations from propagating about the Murugan conference in Madurai, submitted a petition to Collector M.S. Sangeetha here on Monday. As Hindutva organisations announced conducting the Murugan conference in Madurai on June 22, advocate K. Vanchinathan, one of the petitioners, said that it was a plan of the fringe elements to initiate communal differences in the State. 'While Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has spoken about the progressiveness of the State and how it had protected the minorities from the fringe group elements, how did Madurai district administration allow them to organise such a conference,' he asked. While it was informed that the police were yet to issue them permission, on what basis, they were allowed to lay the foundation stone and propagate about the event through media and posters, Mr. Vanchinathan asked. Condemning discrepancies in letting them conduct such a conference, he said that if it was not stopped, they would stage a protest, he asserted.
The Hindu
19-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
Forum protests demanding action against Madurai Adheenam
Protesters gathered near Jhansi Rani Park here on Monday to protest against Madurai Adheenam for purportedly spewing comments spreading religious hatred were arrested by police and later released. The protesters under the banner 'Madurai Madha Nallinakka Makkal Kootamaipu,' (Madurai Religious Harmony People's Federation) raised slogans against Adheenam for acting against his post. Advocate K. Vanchinathan, one of the protesters, said that following the car accident, Madurai Adheenam by concealing the fact tried to pose a different narrative with a motive antithetical to his position as a mutt head who has been appointed to propagate Saivam and Tamil language. While the previous Adheenam's work as a mutt head was exemplary in bringing about an equal society by clearing off the differences among the public, the present Adheenam's activity was reflecting that of the Hindutva ideologies, he stated. Despite several complaints and petitions to act against the Adheenam, the police and the State government had not initiated any fruitful action against him, he added. A person who had tried to create a distortion in society by bringing in a religious angle in a plain accident case should have immediately been booked under the National Security Act, Mr. Vanchinathan said. Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department should immediately remove him from the prestigious position which had been held by progressive and broad-minded persons, he noted.
