India, Jan. 7 -- The BJP on Tuesday welcomed a Madras High Court order upholding a single judge's directive allowing the lighting of a lamp at a stone pillar atop the Thirupparankundram hill in Madurai, and described the DMK, Congress and the opposition 'INDI alliance' as "anti-Hindu" and "anti-Sanatan". The party also vowed to fight any attempt to divide people along the lines of caste or religion.

Addressing a press conference after the division bench of Justices G Jayachandran and KK Ramakrishnan delivered the judgment, senior BJP leader and Union Minister Piyush Goyal termed the order a "slap on the face of the appeasement policy" of the Opposition bloc and "victory of the Hindu religion". "The two judges have given conclusive direct...