Chennai, Oct. 20 -- Never has a DMK president, even while holding the office of Chief Minister, extended Deepawali greetings. MK Stalin can't be any different.
Neither the DMK founder and former chief minister 'Anna' CN Annadurai, who eschewed rationalism by coining the slogan 'humanity is one and so is God' to make the party more acceptable, nor his successor and Dravidian patriarch M Karunanidhi, ever wished on the festival despite persistent attempts to paint him and the party as anti-Hindu.
The Hindutva needling of the DMK continues even today. But Stalin remains unmoved, ignoring it as a needless diversion. On the last day of the Assembly session on Friday, BJP legislator and party Mahila Morcha national president Vanathi Srinivasan ...