Problem is you get banned if you have too many negative ratings!! That's what happened to @wolfchannze who had 25-30 of them, he has banned for the last few months!
@mooppan
AIADMK & Amma are not atheist, on the contrary they are proud of their religion & display their religion & their respect for it in public ,AIADMK was even against the sethusamudram Project.
The AIADMK, since its inception though has never shied away from accepting and displaying religious fervour, unlike the party it was born from, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).
Party chief Jayalalithaa herself has, in the past, participated in various religious festivals and conducted prayers in prominent temples, including at the famous Mahamaham near Trichy, on the banks of the river Cauvery.
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It is the DMK which is vociferously anti-Hindu, I remember Sivaji Ganesan went to Tirupathi in the 1960s for the darshanam of Lord Balaji, for this "crime" he was criticised heavily by the DMK & it's partymen following which he left it.
These scumbags tried to ram Sethusamudram through using the centre!! Who can forget that senile Karuna's insults of Lord Ram back when he was the CM!
Shameless fellow happily encourages missionaries & Islamists but hates Hinduism. I hope he loses 2016 heavily!
“90-95 percent of DMK workers are Hindus,” argued Stalin. “Their families go to temples, even my own wife frequents temples. I do not stop her. The reason I went to this Ramanujar temple is that Kalaignar (Karunanidhi) has written a script for a series on Ramanujar which is being aired on Kalaignar TV.
Stalin is smarter than his father, since the 2014 Election defeat, he has changed the party strategy. He is talking more about good governance & development.
He even carried out the
Namakku Naamme yatra to rejuvenate the cadre & help the DMK's fortunes. Add to that it has been good PR for him to portray himself as a neta inter-mingling with the commoners.
Check this link here:-
Stalin apologises to Tamil Nadu voters in push for 2016 bid - Firstpost
@Star Wars @Tridibans @Echo_419 @JanjaWeed @Nair saab
From what I know he is supposed to have been in contact with Prashant Kishore for the 2016 Elections(Assembly)!! Depending upon the results of Bihar & the JDU, it will be decided whether PK will work for him or not.
& this part is very interesting
@Josef K
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Rise of Hindu spirituality?
A telling account of the mood in Tamil Nadu, especially in the Western belt of the state, is that of the protests against Tamil author Perumal Murugan in January this year. His novel
Madhorubagan (One Part Woman) published in 2010 and set in the temple town of Tiruchengode, was suddenly at the centre of a controversy.
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he reason for the sudden outburst was rather ironic. The Singapore-based brother of a man who owned a business called Saravana Press in Tiruchengode chanced upon a copy of the book and read it since he too hailed from Tiruchengode. The shocked Singapore resident then informed his brother in Tiruchengode about the book and sent across a copy. As more copies were bought and shared the controversy grew.
Claiming that the novel insulted the women of Tiruchengode and demeaned Hinduism, large protests were organised in Tiruchengode by various groups including pro-Hindu outfits and groups with dominant caste-affiliations. For the first ever time in the temple town, a call for total shutdown was almost fully successful.
"People may have been in any political party but they all came together for the temple," M Subramanian, Namakkal district president of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Tiruchengode, said.
"Women who conceive after a long time usually refer to their children here as ‘Samy kodutha pillai’ (God given child). These women felt insulted and demeaned by the book," he said.
M Subramanian, Namakkal district president of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Tiruchengode. image courtesy: Sandhya Ravishankar
"The protest against
Madhorubagan was not orchestrated by any organisation," explained M Sabarinathan, district head of the Youth Wing of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
"People spontaneously came together because they were angry at their temple being targeted," he said.
Riding on the back of increasing spirituality, the RSS has become more active and popular in the past two years. Now there are 40 shakhas in the Namakkal district that have been set up within just two years. There are now 50 full-time volunteers who hold office-bearer positions in the organisation, along with hundreds of other volunteers.
"There is support for the RSS amongst the people who know about it," Subramanian said.
The sentiment finds echoes in the entire Western belt of the state, like the Kongunadu area comprising of Coimbatore, Tirupur, Namakkal and Salem. Even in Erode, the birthplace of Periyar EV Ramasamy Naicker, the firebrand revolutionary who founded the Dravidian ideology, Hindu spirituality is on the rise, say experts.
“The common man is deeply religious, especially in the face of socio-economic challenges,” political analyst Stalin Rajangam said. “Political parties are behaving in a manner that people want them to behave in. Political parties definitely want power – they will always look at finding easy ways in which to appeal to the people... 50 years back people came into politics wanting to change things in society. But today it is not about societal change, it is only about votes,” he said.
Hindu outfits like the RSS and smaller groups like the Indhu Makkal Katchi (Hindu People’s Party) and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Forum) are now working hard on the ground to draw youngsters into their fold. “A lot of youngsters are religious now,” said N Sadagopan, media coordinator for the RSS in Chennai. “In fact a lot of people are now openly religious. You must see the Hindu festivals in the villages. It is youngsters who organise and conduct these festivals energetically,” he said.
Leaders of fringe pro-Hindu outfits like Arjun Sampath of the Indhu Makkal Katchi are making calls for Hindus to unite and throw the Dravidian parties out of Tamil Nadu.
"The only alternative for Dravidianism is Hindutva,” said Sampath in Tirupur.
"We are going to the people ahead of elections with the slogan ‘Hindu renaissance is Tamil Nadu’s development’," he said.
The Indhu Makkal Katchi plans to hold a large rally in the temple town of Palani on 1 November.
Experts say that this obvious change in political rhetoric of all parties is due to Dravidian ideology struggling to keep itself together as a result of its inherent flaws.
"The Dravidian movement clubbed all local Gods under Brahminism and alienated a large section of people," explained analyst Stalin Rajangam.
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This was a problem with the Dravidian ideology. Dravidian movement did not give an alternate cultural ideology or religion. So when people were desperate, they simply went back to the Gods that they were used to, the so-called Brahmin gods. It is quite right that politicians like Stalin are taking different paths. He does not have the baggage of Periyar which Karunanidhi had. He needs to break with the traditional Dravidian ideology in order to get votes today. Stalin can only be Karunanidhi’s political heir and not his ideological heir,” he said.
Tamil Nadu’s youth is in demand ahead of 2016. With over 60 lakh first-time voters, who are making their ideas clear on social media, political parties are having to shed much of their old ways in order to connect with the youth. The game is on.
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Am re-posting this last para. This explains why Stalin is changing the party's path.
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This was a problem with the Dravidian ideology. Dravidian movement did not give an alternate cultural ideology or religion. So when people were desperate, they simply went back to the Gods that they were used to, the so-called Brahmin gods. It is quite right that politicians like Stalin are taking different paths. He does not have the baggage of Periyar which Karunanidhi had. He needs to break with the traditional Dravidian ideology in order to get votes today. Stalin can only be Karunanidhi’s political heir and not his ideological heir,”
