Chennai, Dec. 5 -- Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader K Annamalai launched a scathing attack on the DMK government over the arrest of several party leaders in connection with the Karthigai Deepam row, demanding the immediate release of all those detained and insisting that the "anti-Hindu DMK government implement the court's orders" without further defiance.

This comes after chaos erupted around the Thiruparankundram hilltop Subramaniya Swamy Temple in Tamil Nadu's Madurai district when devotees were stopped from lighting the sacred Karthigai Deepam lamp atop the temple hill.

Sharing a post on X, Annamalai wrote, "The anti-Hindu DMK government has once again willfully defied the court's order by preventing devotees from ligh...