They are believers in their private lives and secular in their public lives. The BJP seems to be refusing to recognise the fact that a large number of the DMK followers and even some of its leaders are not atheists. The main reason for this is that the BJP seems to have completely gone wrong in its assessment of the important role that the DMK has played in transforming the way the Tamil society views and experiences the “sacred” and the “secular”. However, the political campaign against the DMK did not seem to work and may not work in the future either. With its strategy of labeling the DMK’s secular politics as “anti-Hindu”, it sought to create anxiety among the secular political parties since the vast majority of the voters belong to the Hindu community. The Tamil Nadu BJP leadership appears to have deliberately chosen not to label the DMK as a “pseudo-secular” party as it did in case of the Congress.īy branding the Congress as “pseudo-secular”, the BJP tried to create the perception that it alone represents true secularism. However, what has largely gone unnoticed was the differential naming political strategy that the BJP employed in case of the DMK. They also argued that protecting minority rights was the party’s democratic duty and obligation. In response to this political labeling by the BJP, leaders and ideologues of the DMK constantly denied that their party was anti-Hindu and claimed that the party treats all religions equally. Secondly, its efforts to protect the rights and interests of the religious minorities in Tamil Nadu. Firstly, the DMK’s ideological legacy of Periyar E V Ramasamy, particularly his crusade against Brahmanical hegemony. The Hindutva party did so by targeting two aspects of the DMK politics. Ex-CJI Venkatachalaiah’s prescription for India: ‘The cure for ills of democracy is more democracy’ĭuring the recent Tamil Nadu election campaign, the Bharatiya Janata Party tried hard to project the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam as an anti-Hindu political party.How a Dawoodi Bohra from British India became a business icon in East Africa in early 20th century.
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