Supreme Court Issues Notice to Stalin Over His Sanatan Dharma Remarks

New Delhi: A Supreme Court bench on Friday issued notices to Udhayanidhi Stalin and Tamil Nadu government seeking responses regarding his “eradicate Sanatan Dharma” remarks.

The apex court was hearing a petition that sought the registration of an FIR against Udhayanidhi for his comments earlier this month that ‘Sanatan Dharma’ was against the idea of social justice and that it must be eradicated.

A bench of justices Aniruddha Bose and Bela M Trivedi issued notices to the state government and Udhayanidhi even as it observed that the petitioner had the option of approaching the jurisdictional high court in the first instance.

Addressing a conference organised in Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers Artists Association on the theme of ‘eradication of Sanatan’ on September 2, Udhayanidhi said that Sanatana was against the idea of social justice and that it had to be eradicated. “A few things cannot be opposed, that should be abolished only. We can’t oppose dengue, mosquitoes, malaria, or corona. We have to eradicate this, that’s how we have to eradicate Sanatana,” Udhayanidhi was quoted as saying on the day.

His comments led to a massive political row.