BJP’s Khushbu Sundar Detained All over Protest Amid Manusmriti Remarks Row
Khushbu Sundar used to be detained when she used to be on her method to lead a BJP protest.
Chennai:
Actor-turned-politician Khushbu Sundar, who joined the BJP previous this month, used to be detained by way of the police in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district lately whilst she used to be on her method to lead a protest in opposition to a political candidate for his remarks on historic Hindu textual content Manusmriti.
All over a up to date cope with to a gaggle, Thol Thirumavalavan, the manager of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), had claimed that spiritual textual content Manusmriti demeans ladies and that Manu Dharma treats ladies as grownup employees. The baby-kisser had demanded ban on Manusmriti.
Ms Sundar used to be heading to Cuddalore district to guide a protest by way of the BJP’s ladies’s wing when she used to be detained. The police had denied permission for the protest in Cuddalore.
The party has demanded an apology from Mr Thirumavalavan for his remarks, with its ladies’s wing calling for protests throughout Tamil Nadu. The BJP stated the feedback may just cause a communal conflict.
Reacting to the complaint, Mr Thirumavalavan stated, “I best quoted Manusmriti. Manusmriti must be banned. The BJP is spreading faux information to cause clashes.”
A case used to be filed in opposition to the VCK leader, which used to be condemned by way of the opposition DMK, Congress and different events that shape the Secular Revolutionary Alliance.
On Monday, BJP and VCK cadres just about got here to blows when Mr Thirumavalavan visited Erode. When he used to be on his method to attend a marriage, BJP employees raised slogans in opposition to him and demanded his apology for his feedback. VCK, who had been within the neighborhood, raised counter slogans and it gave the impression for some time {that a} conflict might erupt. The police took away the BJP employees in a van. When the automobile used to be about to go away the spot, some VCK employees allegedly threw stones at the van, however no person used to be injured, the police stated.
Khushbu Sundar modified camp from the Congress and joined the BJP simply months prior to the Tamil Nadu polls. In her resignation letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, she wrote that she felt “driven and suppressed” by way of individuals who had no connect to flooring truth.
